Two-year course of subfoveal pigment epithelial detachment in eyes with age-related macular degeneration and visual acuity better than 20/40

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 102-109

  Baba, Takayuki ^a   Kitahashi, Masayasu ^a   Kubota Taniai, Mariko ^a   Oshitari, Toshiyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Shuichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Choroidal neovascularization; Polypoidal choroidopathy; Retinal pigment epithelial detachment

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; RANIBIZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; BEST CORRECTED VISUAL ACUITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBFOVEAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL DETACHMENT; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHOROID; CHOROID DISEASES; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; POLYPS; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84864575265     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: 14230267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000337251     Document Type: Article

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