Effectiveness of laser photocoagulation in clinically significant macular edema with focal versus diffuse parafoveal thickening on optical coherence tomography

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 472-479

  Barkmeier, Andrew J ^a   Nicholson, Benjamin P ^a   Akduman, Levent ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 70449725284     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20090901-06     Document Type: Article

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