Epiretinal membranes and incomplete posterior vitreous detachment in diabetic macular edema, detected by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6414-6420

  Ophir, Avinoam ^a,b   Martinez, Michael R ^a  

^a HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; VITRECTOMY;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN A; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 80054043306     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6781     Document Type: Article

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