Imaging the microvasculature of choroidal melanomas with confocal indocyanine green scanning laser ophthalmoscopy

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-39

  Mueller, Arthur J ^a   Bartsch, Dirk Uwe ^b   Folberg, Robert ^c   Mehaffey, Mary G ^d   Culver Boldt, H ^a   Meyer, Margaret ^a   Gardner, Lynn M ^b   Hsgoldbaum, Michael ^c   Peer, Jacob ^d   Freeman, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 6844266274     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.116.1.31     Document Type: Article

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