The significance of the external limiting membrane in the recovery of photoreceptor layer after successful macular hole closure: A study by spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 176-184

  Theodossiadis, Panagiotis G ^a   Grigoropoulos, Vlassis G ^b   Theodossiadis, George P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

External limiting membrane; Full thickness macular hole; Inner outer segment layer; Photoreceptor layer; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EXTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS; PHOTORECEPTOR INNER SEGMENT; PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANE; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETINA SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 79551546726     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323322     Document Type: Article

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