Punctate inner choroidopathy: Clinical features and outcomes

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 982-987

  Essex, Rohan W ^a,b   Wong, James ^b   Fraser Bell, Samantha ^b   Sandbach, Jen ^b   Tufail, Adnan ^b,c   Bird, Alan C ^b,c   Dowler, Jonathan ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTATE INNER CHOROIDOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATROPHY; CHOROID; CHOROID DISEASES; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955443538     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.157     Document Type: Article

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