Clinicopathological correlation of outer retinal tubulationinage-related macular degeneration

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 609-612

  Litts, Katie M ^a,b   Messinger, Jeffrey D ^b   Dellatorre, Kara ^c,d   Yannuzzi, Lawrence A ^d   Freund, K Bailey ^d   Curcio, Christine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Bannett Eye Centers   (United States)

^d VITREOUS RETINA MACULA CONSULTANTS OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; CASE REPORT; EYE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; OUTER RETINAL TUBULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERY ELDERLY; FATALITY; MITOCHONDRION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VITELLIFORM MACULAR DEGENERATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VITELLIFORM MACULAR DYSTROPHY;

EID: 84929666532     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: 21686173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.126     Document Type: Letter

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