Rapidly progressive scar formation after transpupillary thermotherapy in retinal angiomatous proliferation

Retina

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 417-420

  Kuroiwa, Sachiko ^a   Arai, Jun ^a   Gaun, Satoko ^a   Iida, Tomohiro ^b   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; RETINA ANGIOMATOUS PROLIFERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY;

EID: 0038756710     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200306000-00027     Document Type: Article

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