Photodynamic therapy of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization: Clinical and angiographic examples

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 365-374

  Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a   Miller, Joan ^b   Sickenberg, Michel ^c   Bunse, Arnd ^a   Laqua, Horst ^a   Gragoudas, Evangelos ^b   Zografos, Leonidas ^c   Birngruber, Reginald ^a   Van Den Bergh, Hubert ^c   Strong, Andrew ^d   Manjuris, Ulrike ^d   Fsadni, Mario ^e   Lane, Ann M ^b   Piguet, Bertrand ^c   Bressler, Neil M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

^d QLT PhotoTherapeutics Inc   (Canada)

^e CIBA Vision AG   (Switzerland)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCEIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SLIT LAMP; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CHOROID; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PORPHYRINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SAFETY;

EID: 7144261729     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050092     Document Type: Article

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