Late-onset retinal macular degeneration: Clinical insights into an inherited retinal degeneration

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 1007, 2009, Pages 495-500

  Borooah, S ^a   Collins, C ^a   Wright, A ^b   Dhillon, B ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR;

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DARK ADAPTATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUSEN; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; LATE ONSET RETINAL MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; REVIEW; STAGING; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGE OF ONSET; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT COAGULATION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MUTATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VITAMIN A;

EID: 70349233994     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.150151     Document Type: Review

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