Perifoveal vitreous detachment and its macular complications

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 103, Issue , 2005, Pages 537-567

  Johnson, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BIOMICROSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; VITREORETINAL DEGENERATION; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR EDEMA; MACULAR EDEMA, CYSTOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETINOSCHISIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 29944432408     PISSN: 15456110     EISSN: 15456110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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