Intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis) for choroidal neovascularization associated with Stargardt's disease

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 319-321

  Querques, Giuseppe ^a,b   Bocco, Maria Cecilia Angulo ^b   Soubrane, Gisele ^b   Souied, Eric H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Intravitreal ranibizumab; Lucentis; Macular dystrophy; Stargardt's disease.

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; STARGARDT DISEASE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; COLORING AGENTS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 38549157131     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0689-z     Document Type: Article

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