Correlation of visual recovery with presence of photoreceptor inner/outer segment junction in optical coherence images after epiretinal membrane surgery

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-175

  Mitamura, Y ^a   Hirano, K ^a   Baba, T ^a   Yamamoto, S ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CILIARY DISK; CONVALESCENCE; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ROD INNER SEGMENT; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL INNER SEGMENT; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 60849087340     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.146381     Document Type: Article

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