Development of Typical Age-related Macular Degeneration and Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy in Fellow Eyes of Japanese Patients with Exudative Age-related Macular Degeneration

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ueta, Takashi ^a   Iriyama, Aya ^a   Francis, Jasmine ^b   Takahashi, Hidenori ^a   Adachi, Tomoko ^a   Obata, Ryo ^a   Inoue, Yuji ^a   Tamaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Yanagi, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUSEN; EXUDATIVE AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPANESE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OUTPATIENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 45449096073     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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