Retinal outer layer thickness increases after vitrectomy for epiretinal membrane, and visual improvement positively correlates with photoreceptor outer segment length

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-226

  Hashimoto, Yuki ^a   Saito, Wataru ^a   Saito, Michiyuki ^a   Hirooka, Kiriko ^a   Fujiya, Akio ^a   Yoshizawa, Chikako ^a   Noda, Kousuke ^a   Ishida, Susumu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cone outer segment tip; Epiretinal membrane; External limiting membrane; Optical coherence tomography; Photoreceptor inner segment and outer segment junction; Photoreceptor outer segment length; Retinal thickness

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORGAN SIZE; RETINA; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84894068436     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-013-2432-2     Document Type: Article

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