Surgical treatment of peripapillary choroidal neovascularisation

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 990-991

  Binder, Susanne ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BRUCH MEMBRANE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE SURGERY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34547185601     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.114009     Document Type: Editorial

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