Bilateral juvenile choroidal neovascularization associated with best's vitelliform dystrophy: Observation versus photodynamic therapy

Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-122

  Viola, Francesco ^a   Villani, Edoardo ^a   Mapelli, Chiara ^a   Staurenghi, Giovanni ^b   Ratiglia, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEPORFIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CHILD; EYE; FAMILY HISTORY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; OBSERVATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA MACULA VITELLIFORM DEGENERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

CHILD; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77950530048     PISSN: 01913913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01913913-20100308-14     Document Type: Article

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