Taut internal limiting membrane causing diffuse diabetic macular edema after vitrectomy: Clinicopathological correlation

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 64-70

  Gentile, Ronald C ^a,b   Milman, Tatyana ^a   Eliott, Dean ^c   Romero, Juan M ^a   McCormick, Steven A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Immunohistochemistry; Internal limiting membrane, taut; Macular edema; Pathology; Vitrectomy

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ACTINS; ADULT; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATIN-18; KERATIN-8; MACULAR EDEMA; NEUROGLIA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 79955972273     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: 14230267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327365     Document Type: Article

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