Intravitreal ranibizumab for choroidal neovascularization secondary to acute multifocal posterior placoid pigment epitheliopathy

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Mavrakanas, Nikolaos ^a   Mendrinos, Efstratios ^a   Tabatabay, Cyrus ^a   Pournaras, Constantin J ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BIOMICROSCOPY; CASE REPORT; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIOPATHY; SLIT LAMP; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHORIORETINITIS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77649195899     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01541.x     Document Type: Letter

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