Remodeling of the vascular channels in retinal angiomatous proliferations treated with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide and photodynamic therapy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1528-1533

  Bottoni, Ferdinando ^a,c   Romano, Mary ^b   Massacesi, Amedeo ^a   Bergamini, Fulvio ^a  

^a S Giuseppe Hospital   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Photodynamic therapy; Retinal angiomatous proliferation; Triamcinolone acetonide

Indexed keywords

TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORING AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINAL VESSELS; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 33750515099     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0311-9     Document Type: Article

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