Photodynamic therapy using verteporfin in circumscribed choroidal haemangioma

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 84-89

  Jurklies, Bernhard ^a   Anastassiou, G ^a   Ortmans, S ^a   Schuler A ^a   Schilling, H ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, U ^b   Bornfeld, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BOLUS INJECTION; CHOROID TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; EXUDATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037230279     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.1.84     Document Type: Article

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