Refractile drusen: Clinical imaging and candidate histology

Retina

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 859-865

  Suzuki, Mihoko ^a   Curcio, Christine A ^b   Mullins, Robert F ^c   Spaide, Richard F ^a  

^a EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

drusen; geographic atrophy; histology

Indexed keywords

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; DRUSEN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REFRACTILE DRUSEN; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERY ELDERLY; CALCINOSIS; DONOR; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; METABOLISM; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CHOROID; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL IMAGING; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84928986086     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0000000000000503     Document Type: Article

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