Enlargement of the hypofluorescent post photodynamic therapy treatment spot after a combination of photodynamic therapy with an intravitreal injection of bevacizumab for retinal angiomatous proliferation

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 315-318

  Rouvas, Aalexandros A ^a   Papakostas, Thanos D ^b   Ladas, Ioannis D ^a   Vergados, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Bevacizumab; Hypofluorescence; Photodynamic therapy; Retinal angiomatous proliferation

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; BEVACIZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL STRESS; CHOROID; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; ISCHEMIA; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ANGIOMATOUS PROLIFERATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLORING AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; RETINA; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 38549129731     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0669-3     Document Type: Article

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