A comparison of macular translocation with patch graft in neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1848-1855

  Chen, Fred K ^a,b   Patel, Praveen J ^a,b   Uppal, Gurmit S ^a   Rubin, Gary S ^a,b,c   Coffey, Peter J ^b   William Aylward, G ^a   da Cruz, Lyndon ^a,b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TISSUE GRAFT; VISUAL ACUITY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CHOROID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PERIMETRY; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 64049087009     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2845     Document Type: Article

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