Fundus autofluorescence before and after photodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 406-414

  Framme, Carsten ^a   Bunse, Arnd ^b   Sofroni, Renata ^a   Thalhammer, Thomas ^a   Walter, Andreas ^a   Sachs, Helmut G ^a   Gabel, Veit Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

EID: 33749499571     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20060901-08     Document Type: Article

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