Review of fundus autofluorescence in choroidal melanocytic lesions

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 497-503

  Gunduz K ^a,b   Pulido, J S ^a   Ezzat, K ^a   Salomao, D ^a   Hann, C ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Angiography; Choroidal melanoma; Choroidal naevus; Fundus autofluorescence; Lipofuscin; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOROID MELANOMA; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUSEN; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METAPLASIA; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; SUBRETINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PROCEDURES;

CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

EID: 62549151724     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2008.244     Document Type: Review

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