Visual functioning and quality of life in the SubFoveal Radiotherapy Study (SFRADS): SFRADS report 2

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1045-1051

  Stevenson, M R ^b   Hart, P M ^b   Chakravarthy, Usha ^a,b   MacKenzie, G ^c   Bird, A C ^d   Owens, S L ^d   Chisholm, I H ^e   Hall, V ^f   Houston, R F ^g   McCulloch, D W ^h   Plowman, N ⁱ  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f Wessex Radiotherapy Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g Northern Ireland Cancer Centre   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 23144446773     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2003.030445     Document Type: Article

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