Quality of life in patients with age-related macular degeneration with monocular and binocular legal blindness

Clinics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 573-578

  Marback, Roberta Ferrari ^a   Maia Jr , Otacílio De Oliveira ^a   Morais, Fábio Barreto ^a   Takahashi, Walter Yukihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blindness psychology; Llow etiology; Macular degeneration complications; Quality of life psychology; Retina abnormalities; Sickness impact profile; Vision

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 36448940896     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1807-59322007000500007     Document Type: Article

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