A new grading system for retinal pigment epithelial tears

Retina

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1039-1045

  Sarraf, David ^a,b,c   Reddy, Shantan ^a,d   Chiang, Allen ^a   Yu, Fei ^a   Jain, Atul ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; PEGAPTANIB; RANIBIZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA TEAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBRETINAL FLUID; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77954760794     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181cdf366     Document Type: Article

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