External limiting membrane and visual outcome in macular hole repair: Spectral domain OCT analysis

Eye

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-69

  Landa, G ^a,b   Gentile, R C ^a,b   Garcia, P M T ^a,b   Muldoon, T O ^a,b   Rosen, R B ^a,b  

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

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

external limiting membrane; macular hole repair; spectral domain OCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INNER SEGMENT OUTER SEGMENT JUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANE; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84855852632     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2011.237     Document Type: Article

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