Diagnosis of macular pseudoholes and lamellar macular holes: Is optical coherence tomography the "gold standard"?

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 635-639

  Bottoni, F ^a   Carmassi, L ^a   Cigada, M ^a   Moschini, S ^a   Bergamini, F ^a  

^a S Giuseppe Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAMELLAR MACULAR HOLE; MACULAR PSEUDOHOLE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA HOLE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORESCENCE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MACULA LUTEA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 43649100915     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.127597     Document Type: Article

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