Venous nicking without arteriovenous contact the role of the arteriolar microenvironment in arteriovenous nickings

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 947-950

  Paques, Michel ^a,b   Brolly, Aurélie ^a,b   Benesty, Jonathan ^a,b   Lermé, Nicolas ^c   Koch, Edouard ^a,b   Rossant, Florence ^c   Bloch, Isabelle ^d   Girmens, Jean François ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D OPHTALMOLOGIE DES QUINZE VINGTS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Institute Superieur d'Electronique de Paris   (France)

^d TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERIOLE; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERIOVENOUS NICKING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA VEIN; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; VASCULAR REMODELING; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOLES; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84939543498     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: 21686173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.1132     Document Type: Article

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