Optical Coherence Tomographic Hyperreflective Foci. A Morphologic Sign of Lipid Extravasation in Diabetic Macular Edema

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 914-920

  Bolz, Matthias ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a   Deak, Gabor ^a,b   Mylonas, Georgios ^a   Kriechbaum, Katharina ^a   Scholda, Christoph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EXTRAVASATION; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LASER; MICROANEURYSM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA EXUDATE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY FLUIDS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOPROTEINS; MACULAR EDEMA; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 65349121224     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.12.039     Document Type: Article

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