Filling-in phenomenon in patients with age-related macular degeneration: Differences regarding uni- or bilaterality of central scotoma

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 241, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 785-791

  Cohen, Salomon Yves ^a,b   Lamarque, Frédéric ^a   Saucet, Jeanne Claude ^a   Provent, Pierre ^c   Langram, Cecilia ^a   LeGargasson, Jean François ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^c Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LASERS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; SCOTOMA;

EID: 0242521299     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0744-3     Document Type: Article

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