Time course of changes in metamorphopsia, visual acuity, and OCT parameters after successful epiretinal membrane surgery

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3592-3597

  Kinoshita, Takamasa ^a,b   Imaizumi, Hiroko ^a   Okushiba, Utako ^a   Miyamoto, Hirotomo ^a   Ogino, Tetsuo ^a   Mitamura, Yoshinori ^b  

^a SAPPORO CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SLIT LAMP; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TONOMETRY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84865624833     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9493     Document Type: Article

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