Bevacizumab: Off-label use in ophthalmology

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 417-420

  Grisanti, Salvatore ^a,b   Ziemssen, Focke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Intravitreal injection; Neovascular ocular disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548983950     PISSN: 03014738     EISSN: 03014738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.36474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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