Photodynamic therapy for subfoveal classic choroidal neovascularization related to punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) or presumed ocular histoplasmosis-like syndrome (POHS-like)

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 361-366

  Postelmans, Laurence ^a,f   Pasteels, Brigitte ^a   Coquelet, Pascale ^a   Caspers, Laure ^a   Verougstraete, Claire ^a   Leys, Anita ^b   Wirix, Mieke ^b   Mauget Faÿsse, Martine ^c   Quarante, Maddalena ^c   Rolland, Florence ^d   Snyers, Bernadette ^d   Smets, Erica ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Centre Ophtalmologique Rabelais   (France)

^d CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^e ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chorioretinitis; Choroidal neovascularization; Photodynamic therapy; Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome; Punctate inner choroidopathy

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHOROID DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; OCULAR HISTOPLASMOSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; SAFETY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 28244456208     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09273940590951124     Document Type: Article

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