Intravitreal methotrexate in therapeutically resistant exudative age-related macular degeneration

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kurup, Shree K ^a   Gee, Chris ^a   Greven, Craig M ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; METHOTREXATE; RANIBIZUMAB;

AGED; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; OCULAR FIBROSIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIFOVEAL LEAKAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; SUBRETINAL FIBROSIS; SUBRETINAL FLUID; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77952857081     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01560.x     Document Type: Letter

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