Effect of Retinal Photocoagulation on Intraretinal Lipid Exudates in Diabetic Macular Edema Documented by Optical Coherence Tomography

Ophthalmology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 773-779

  Deák, Gábor Gy ^a,b   Bolz, Matthias ^a   Kriechbaum, Katharina ^a   Prager, Sonja ^a   Mylonas, Georgios ^a   Scholda, Christoph ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTRARETINAL LIPID EXUDATE; LASER COAGULATION; MACULAR LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA EXUDATE; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; BODY FLUIDS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LIPID METABOLISM; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77949657857     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.09.027     Document Type: Article

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