Resolution of exudative retinal detachment from retinal astrocytoma following photodynamic therapy

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-274

  Shields, Carol L ^a   Materin, Miguel A ^b   Marr, Brian P ^b   Krepostman, Jaime ^b   Shields, Jerry A ^b  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER COAGULATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA TUMOR; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR EDEMA; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 39049090061     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2007.54     Document Type: Article

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