Histopathologic and ultrastructural features of surgically excised subfoveal choroidal neovascular lesions: Submacular surgery trials report no. 7

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 914-921

  Grossniklaus, Hans E ^a   Miskala, Päivi H ^b   Green, W Richard ^b   Bressler, Susan B ^b   Hawkins, Barbara S ^b   Toth, Cynthia ^b   Wilson, David J ^b   Bressler, Neil M ^b  

^a EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULAR HISTOPLASMOSIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FIBROBLAST; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 22844437401     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.123.7.914     Document Type: Article

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