Clarifying the mechanism of idiopathic macular hole development in fellow eyes using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-108

  Takezawa, Mikiko ^a   Toyoda, Fumihiko ^a   Kambara, Chiho ^a   Yamagami, Hiroko ^a   Kakehashi, Akihiro ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fellow eye; Idiopathic macular hole; Optical coherence tomography; Posterior vitreous detachment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; PATHOGENESIS; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA HOLE; SLIT LAMP; STRESS; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT;

EID: 79251572618     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S16549     Document Type: Article

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