Rapid improvement of radiation-induced neovascular glaucoma and exudative retinal detachment after a single intravitreal ranibizumab injection

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 878-880

  Dunavoelgyi, Roman ^a   Zehetmayer, Martin ^a   Simader, Christian ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anti VEGF; Glaucoma; Neovascular; Radiotherapy; Uveal neoplasm

Indexed keywords

DORZOLAMIDE; LATANOPROST; RANIBIZUMAB; TIMOLOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; RADIATION INJURY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; UVEA MELANOMA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; GLAUCOMA, NEOVASCULAR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RETINAL DETACHMENT; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 37549068492     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01632.x     Document Type: Article

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