Efective treatment of diffuse diabetic macular edema by temporal grid pattern photocoagulation

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 270-280

  Shimura, Masahiko ^a   Yasuda, Kanako ^a   Nakazawa, Toru ^a   Ota, Satsuki ^a   Tamai, Makoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSE DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL ACUITY; CASE REPORT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MACULAR EDEMA, CYSTOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 3543027469     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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