Lacquer crack formation and choroidal neovascularization in pathologic myopia

Retina

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1124-1131

  Ikuno, Yasushi ^a   Sayanagi, Kaori ^a   Soga, Kaori ^a   Sawa, Miki ^a   Gomi, Fumi ^a   Tsujikawa, Motokazu ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choroidal neovascularization; High myopia; Indocyanine green angiography; Lacquer crack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; LACQUER CRACK; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MYOPIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOLOGIC MYOPIA; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA ANGIOGRAPHY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DEGENERATIVE MYOPIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

COLORING AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE;

EID: 58149237015     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318174417a     Document Type: Article

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