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Showing papers by "Richard F. Spaide published in 1998"


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TL;DR: In the macular variant of IPCV, ICG and fluorescein angiography demonstrate characteristic macular polypoidal lesions without evidence of peripapillary lesions.

147 citations


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TL;DR: This study found that external beam radiation using 1000 cGy in 5 fractions, a dose similar to that used in previous studies, was not effective in the treatment of CNV secondary to AMD, and it is suggested that patients should not be treated with this dose.

119 citations



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TL;DR: Indocyanine-green videoangiography may be a predictive indicator of future exudative changes in eyes with drusen, and the subgroup of patients with plaques on ICG-V had a higher chance of having exudatives changes develop.

58 citations


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TL;DR: Angiography through wide-angle fundus lenses is an easy and inexpensive method of visualizing large areas of the fundus and may help improve the ability to image the angioarchitecture, hemodynamics, and pathologic changes in the retina and choroid.
Abstract: Background:Evaluation of the vasculature and blood flow in the fundus is limited by the small field of view of conventional fundus cameras. We sought to develop an easy method to image wide areas of the fundus.Methods:Wide-angle contact fundus lenses with antireflective coatings in the infrared rang

41 citations


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TL;DR: The DS-ICGA may improve the authors ability to image, and subsequently treat, occult CNV and could be imaged more quickly and in greater detail than with conventional imaging techniques.

18 citations