Visual acuity in 3422 consecutive eyes with choroidal nevus

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1501-1507

  Shields, Carol L ^a,b   Furuta, Minoru ^a   Mashayekhi, Arman ^a   Berman, Edwina L ^a   Zahler, Jonathan D ^a   Hoberman, Daniel M ^a   Dinh, Diep H ^a   Shields, Jerry A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CHOROIDAL NEVUS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA EDEMA; RETINA FOVEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UVEA DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 36148985293     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.125.11.1501     Document Type: Article

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