Ocular risk factors for choroidal neovascularization in pathologic myopia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3721-3725

  Ikuno, Yasushi ^a   Jo, Yukari ^a   Hamasaki, Toshimitsu ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CHOROID DEGENERATION; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROID THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA FOVEA; RISK FACTOR; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOMA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; UVEA DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CHOROID; DEGENERATIVE MYOPIA; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77955901146     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3493     Document Type: Article

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