Dramatic response of choroidal neovascularization associated with choroidal osteoma to the intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (Avastin)

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1731-1733

  Ahmadieh, Hamid ^a   Vafi, Nasser ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Avastin; Bevacizumab; Choroidal neovascularization; Choroidal osteoma

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOROIDAL OSTEOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; OSTEOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 34848876972     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0636-z     Document Type: Article

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