Histologic and Optical Coherence Tomographic Correlates in Drusenoid Pigment Epithelium Detachment in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Ophthalmology

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 644-656

  Balaratnasingam, Chandrakumar ^a,b,c,d   Messinger, Jeffrey D ^f   Sloan, Kenneth R ^e,f   Yannuzzi, Lawrence A ^a,b   Freund, K Bailey ^a,b,c   Curcio, Christine A ^f  

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

^b Manhattan Eye   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL LAMINA; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUSENOID PIGMENT EPITHELIUM DETACHMENT; EX VIVO STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL DRUSEN; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 85010928628     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.12.034     Document Type: Article

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