Retinal pigment epithelium and choroid translocation in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration: Long-term results

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1681-1689

  Maaijwee, Kristel ^a,f   Heimann, Heinrich ^b   Missotten, Tom ^a   Mulder, Paul ^c   Joussen, Antonia ^d   van Meurs, Jan ^a,e  

^a ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Long term results; RPE choroid translocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CHOROID; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREORETINOPATHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMETRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34848886091     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0607-4     Document Type: Article

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