Longterm results in surgical removal of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 686-690

  Guthoff, Rainer ^a,b   Schrader, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Subfoveal neovascularization; Submacular surgery; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 11244349023     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2004.00338.x     Document Type: Article

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