Vitrectomy alone versus vitrectomy with simultaneous intravitreal injection of triamcinolone for macular edema associated with branch retinal vein occlusion

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-12

  Uemura, Akihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Shuichi ^a   Sato, Eiju ^a   Sugawara, Takeshi ^a   Mitamura, Yoshinori ^a   Mizunoya, Satoshi ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 59449092141     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20090101-19     Document Type: Article

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