Translocation of iris pigment epithelium in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration: Long-term results

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 638-647

  Lappas, Alexandra ^a   Foerster, Andreas M H ^b   Weinberger, Andreas W A ^a   Coburger, Silke ^b   Schrage, Norbert F ^a   Kirchhof, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYE FIXATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRIDECTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA TRANSLOCATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IRIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PILOT PROJECTS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 4544316086     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0764-z     Document Type: Article

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