The project macula retinal pigment epithelium grading system for histology and optical coherence tomography in age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3253-3268

  Zanzottera, Emma C ^a,b   Messinger, Jeffrey D ^a   Ach, Thomas ^a,c   Theodore Smith, R ^d   Bailey Freund, K ^d,e,f   Curcio, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^f EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Apoptosis; Basal laminar deposits; Histology; Lipofuscin; Melanosomes; Migration; Retinal pigment epithelium; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOSOME; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84939793399     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.15-16431     Document Type: Article

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