Optical coherence tomography analysis of bilateral end-stage choroidal neovascularization where one eye is treated with photodynamic therapy

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-17

  Sahni, Jayashree ^a   Stanga, Paulo ^b   Wong, David ^a   Lenfestey, Pauline ^a   Kent, David ^c   Harding, Simon ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Aut Even Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Choroidal neovascularization; Optical coherence tomography; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OCULAR FIBROSIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCAR FORMATION; SLIT LAMP; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33846671208     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01385.x     Document Type: Article

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