Choroidal folds and retinal pigment epithelium tear following intravitreal bevacizumab injection for exudative age-related macular degeneration

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-144

  Kawashima, Miwako ^a   Mori, Ryusaburo ^a,b   Mizutani, Yoshihiro ^a   Yuzawa, Mitsuko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Bevacizumab; Retinal pigment epithelial tear

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROIDAL FOLD; EYE DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA TEAR; SEROUS PIGMENT EPITHELIAL DETACHMENT; SLIT LAMP; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROID DISEASES; COLORING AGENTS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 43049135882     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10384-008-0510-5     Document Type: Article

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