Vitreous surgery for diabetic macular edema - Its prognosis and correlation between preoperative systemic and ocular conditions and visual outcome

Annals of Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 222-227

  Hatano, Noriko ^a   Mizota, Atsushi ^a   Tanaka, Minoru ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 36949011186     PISSN: 15304086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12009-007-0027-4     Document Type: Article

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