Subfoveal Pigment Changes in Patients with Longstanding Epiretinal Membranes

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 865-868

  Gomes, Nuno L ^a   Corcostegui, Inigo ^a   Fine, Howard F ^a   Chang, Stanley ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 64449088519     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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