Retinal Pigment Epithelium Tears After Intravitreal Bevacizumab in Pigment Epithelium Detachment

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 294-296

  Weinberger, Andreas W A ^a   Thiel, Mirjam ^a   Mohammadi, Babak ^a   Theofylaktopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Thumann, Gabriele ^a   Walter, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM TEAR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 34447621423     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2007.03.024     Document Type: Article

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