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External Beam Radiation Therapy for Age Related Macular Degeneration: Two-Year Results

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Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the leading cause of blindness in people older than 65 and the second most common cause for patients aged 45–64 years (Ganley and Roberts 1983; Leibowitz et al. 1980a, Leibowitz et al. 1980b; Klein et al. 1992), There are approximately 200,000 new cases of ARMD each year, with over 100,000 people considered legally blind. The prevalence ranges from 0.1% in persons aged 43–54 years to 7.1% in those older than 75 (Klein et al. 1992; Mitchell et al. 1995; Vingerling et al. 1995).

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

    Robert H. Sagerman MD, FACR (Professor) & Sri Gorty MD

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  1. Department of Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Martinistr.52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

    Winfried E. Alberti MD (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Martinistr.52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

    Robert H. Sagerman MD, FACR (Professor) (Professor)

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Sagerman, R.H., Gorty, S. (2001). External Beam Radiation Therapy for Age Related Macular Degeneration: Two-Year Results. In: Alberti, W.E., Richard, G., Sagerman, R.H. (eds) Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56439-0_13

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