Morphology and Long-term Changes of Choroidal Vascular Structure in Highly Myopic Eyes with and without Posterior Staphyloma

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Moriyama, Muka ^a   Ohno Matsui, Kyoko ^a   Futagami, Soh ^a   Yoshida, Takeshi ^a   Hayashi, Kengo ^a   Shimada, Noriaki ^a   Kojima, Ariko ^a   Tokoro, Takashi ^a   Mochizuki, Manabu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOPIA; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOMA;

EID: 34548263710     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.11.034     Document Type: Article

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