Outcome of transplantation of autologous retinal pigment epithelium in age-related macular degeneration: A prospective trial

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4151-4160

  Binder, Susanne ^a   Krebs, Ilse ^a   Hilgers, Ralf Dieter ^b   Abri, Ali ^a   Stolba, Ulrike ^a   Assadoulina, Adele ^a   Kellner, Lukas ^a   Stanzel, Boris V ^a   Jahn, Christian ^a   Feichtinger, Hans ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 6944253464     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0118     Document Type: Article

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