Relationship between retinal morphological findings and visual function in age-related macular degeneration

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1129-1136

  Akagi Kurashige, Yumiko ^a   Tsujikawa, Akitaka ^a   Oishi, Akio ^a   Ooto, Sotaro ^a   Yamashiro, Kenji ^a   Tamura, Hiroshi ^a   Nakata, Isao ^a   Ueda Arakawa, Naoko ^a   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; External limiting membrane; Hyperreflective foci; Optical coherence tomography; Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOVEAL THICKNESS; HUMAN; HYPERREFLECTIVE FOCI; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FIBRIN; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RETINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 84866416685     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-012-1928-5     Document Type: Article

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