Time-course and characteristic morphology of retinal changes following combination of verteporfin therapy and intravitreal triamcinolone in neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-217

  Lie, Shilla ^a   Aue, Arne ^a   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Simader, Christian ^a   Polak, Kaija ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Morphological changes; Optical coherence tomography; Photodynamic therapy; Triamcinolone acetonide

Indexed keywords

TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VERTEPORFIN;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL RETINA THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRARETINAL FLUID; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA EDEMA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL FLUID; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; RETINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77649225288     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.01405.x     Document Type: Article

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