Correlation of leaking microaneurysms with retinal thickening in diabetic retinopathy

International Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-271

  Reznicek, Lukas ^a   Kernt, Marcus ^a   Haritoglou, Christos ^a   Ulbig, Michael ^a   Kampik, Anselm ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Microaneurysm; OCT; Retinal thickness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897623641     PISSN: 22223959     EISSN: 22274898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3980/j.issn.2222-3959.2011.03.11     Document Type: Article

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