Single spot PDT in patients with circumscribed choroidal haemangioma and near normal visual acuity

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1178-1182

  Verbraak, F D ^a   Schlingemann, R O ^a   de Smet, M D ^a   Keunen, J E E ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circumscribed haemangioma (CCH); Phtotodynamic therapy (PDT); Visudyne

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOROID TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIODE LASER; DRUG INFUSION; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33745649075     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0152-y     Document Type: Article

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