Macular holes and macular pucker: The role of vitreoschisis as imaged by optical coherence tomography/scanning laser ophthalmoscopy

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 105, Issue , 2007, Pages 121-129

  Sebag, Jerry ^a,b   Gupta, Priya ^a,b   Rosen, Richard R ^c   Garcia, Patricia ^c   Sadun, Alfredo A ^b  

^a VMR Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA HOLE; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 39149143784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15456110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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