Vitreomacular Adhesion in Active and End-Stage Age-related Macular Degeneration

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Robison, Craig D ^a,b   Krebs, Ilse ^c   Binder, Susanne ^c   Barbazetto, Irene A ^d,e   Kotsolis, Athanasios I ^d   Yannuzzi, Lawrence A ^d   Sadun, Alfredo A ^b   Sebag, Jerry ^a,b  

^a VMR Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^d VITREOUS RETINA MACULA CONSULTANTS OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE ADHESIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VITREOUS BODY; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 67349284037     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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