Retinal pigment epithelium tears secondary to age-related macular degeneration: A simultaneous confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography study

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 575-579

  Caramoy, Albert ^a   Kirchhof, Bernd ^a   Fauser, Sascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA TEAR; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL SURVIVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 79955778474     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.105     Document Type: Article

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