The end of submacular surgery for age-related macular degeneration? A meta-analysis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 490-501

  Falkner, Christiane I ^a   Leitich, Harald ^b   Frommlet, Florian ^b   Bauer, Peter ^b   Binder, Susanne ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Meta analysis; Submacular surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA SURGERY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33947657878     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0184-3     Document Type: Article

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