Intravitreal bevacizumab for choroidal neovascularization in toxoplasmosis

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 688-690

  Guthoff, Rainer ^a   Goebel, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VERTEPORFIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BIOMICROSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CHORIORETINITIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; METAMORPHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CHOROIDITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE; RETINITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 69449094679     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.01319.x     Document Type: Letter

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