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Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and neovascular age-related macular degeneration: same or different disease?
Progress in retinal and eye research - 1 Jan 2010
Laude Augustinus, Cackett Peter D, Vithana Eranga N, Yeo Ian Y, Wong Doric, Koh Adrian H, Wong Tien Y, Aung Tin
Abstract excerpt
Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is the commonest cause of severe visual impairment in older adults in Caucasian white populations. Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) has been described as a separate clinical entity differing from nAMD and other macular diseases associated with subretinal neovascularization. It remains controversial as to whether or not PCV represents a sub-type of nAMD....
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