Influence of vitreomacular adhesion on the development of exudative age-related macular degeneration: 4-year results of a longitudinal study

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 424-433

  Waldstein, Sebastian M ^a   Sponer, Ulrike ^a   Simader, Christian ^a   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VITREOMACULAR ADHESION; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE ADHESIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 84858071392     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3182278b80     Document Type: Article

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