Photodynamic therapy with Verteporfin for vascular leakage from a combined hamartoma of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium [6]

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-188

  Cilliers, Helena ^a,b   Harper, C Alex ^a,b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR EYE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Combined hamartoma of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium; Photodynamic therapy; Treatment; Verteporfin

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA TUMOR; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT;

ADOLESCENT; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PORPHYRINS; RETINAL DISEASES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644801992     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01150.x     Document Type: Letter

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