Macular function evaluated by focal macular electroretinograms after reduced fluence photodynamic therapy in eyes with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 91-98

  Machida, Shigeki ^a   Nishimura, Tomoharu ^a   Tamada, Kunifusa ^a   Harada, Tomomi ^a   Kurosaka, Daijiro ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroretinogram (ERG); Focal ERG; Photodynamic therapy; Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV); Reduced fluence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCED FLUENCE PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RETINOSCOPY;

EID: 84860344577     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: 15732622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-011-9307-9     Document Type: Article

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