Intravitreal bevacizumab for choroidal neovascularisation secondary to punctate inner choroidopathy

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-294

  Vossmerbaeumer, Urs ^a   Spandau, Ulrich H M ^a   v Baltz, Stefan ^a   Wickenhaeuser, Anne ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

ADULT; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CHOROID DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; METAMORPHOSIS; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CHOROIDITIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 42449139154     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01727.x     Document Type: Letter

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