Macular translocation in a patient with adult-onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy with light- and electron-microscopic observations on the surgically removed subfoveal tissue

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 456-467

  Eckardt, Claus ^a   Eckardt, Ute ^a   Groos, Stephanie ^b   Luciano, Liliana ^b   Reale, Enrico ^b  

^a Eye Hospital   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; CITRIC ACID; EPOXY RESIN; LEAD; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE; SILICONE OIL; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE; URANYL ACETATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSCOPY; ONSET AGE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA INJURY; RETINA MACULA TRANSLOCATION; RETINA MACULA VITELLIFORM DEGENERATION; RETINA NECROSIS; RETINOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREORETINOPATHY;

EID: 3543047324     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-0922-y     Document Type: Article

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