Deficits in the electroretinogram in neovascular age-related macular degeneration and changes during photodynamic therapy

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-76

  Mackay, Alison M ^a   Brown, Malcolm C ^a   Hagan, Richard P ^a   Fisher, Anthony C ^a   Grierson, Ian ^b   Harding, Simon P ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Electroretinogram; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; RETINA;

EID: 34548691262     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-007-9056-y     Document Type: Article

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