Long-term functional outcome of macular hole surgery correlated to optical coherence tomography measurements

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-213

  Haritoglou, Christos ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha S ^a   Reiniger, Ingrid W ^a   Priglinger, Siegfried G ^a   Gass, Carolin A ^a   Kampik, Anselm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional outcome; Macular hole; OCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTORECEPTOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINA; RETINA MACULA HOLE; THICKNESS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34147141778     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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