Combined Photodynamic Therapy and Intravitreal Triamcinolone Acetonide for the Treatment of Myopic Subfoveal Choroidal Neovascularization

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 335-337

  Marticorena, Joaquin ^a,b   Gomez Ulla, Francisco ^a,b   Fernandez, Maribel ^b   Pazos, Belen ^b   Rodriguez Cid, Maria Jose ^a   Sanchez Salorio, Manuel ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^b Fundación Instituto Gallego de Oftalmología   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MYOPIA; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA FOVEA; SAFETY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 33746322155     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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