Ophthalmic Education:

Principles and Guidelines of a Curriculum for Education of the Ophthalmic Specialist: Appendix 1: Branch Vein Occlusion Study

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• Recommended Reading
  
  
• Additional Background Reading

Recommended Reading

(No authors listed). Argon laser scatter photocoagulation for prevention of neovascularization and vitreous hemorrhage in branch vein occlusion. A randomized clinical trial. Branch Vein Occlusion Study Group. Arch Ophthalmol 1986; 104: 34-41

(No authors listed). Argon laser photocoagulation for macular edema in branch vein occlusion. The Branch Vein Occlusion Study Group. Am J Ophthalmol 1984; 98: 271-282

Brown GC. Brown MM. Sharma S. Busbee B. Brown H. Incremental cost-effectiveness of laser therapy for visual loss secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2002; 9: 1-10

Additional Background Reading

Barbazetto IA. Schmidt-Erfurth UM. Evaluation of functional defects in branch retinal vein occlusion before and after laser treatment with scanning laser perimetry. Ophthalmology 2000; 107: 1089-1098

Saxena S. Laser photocoagulation in retinal vein occlusion: branch vein occlusion study and central vein occlusion study recommendations. Indian J Ophthalmol 1997; 45: 125-128. Comment: 1997; 45: 261-262

Cousins SW. Flynn HW Jr. Clarkson JG. Macroaneurysms associated with retinal branch vein occlusion. Am J Ophthalmol 1990; 109: 567-570

Finkelstein D. Argon laser photocoagulation for macular edema in branch vein occlusion.Ophthalmology 1986; 93: 975-977

(No authors listed). Branch vein occlusion study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1979; 18: 1097

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