Clinical course of choroidal neovascularization secondary to angioid streaks treated with intravitreal bevacizumab

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 546-549

  Teixeira, Anderson ^a   Mattos, Tessa ^a   Velletri, Roberta ^a   Teixeira, Rafael ^b   Freire, Juliana ^a   Moares, Nilva ^a   Bonomo, Pedro Paulo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b GAMA FILHO UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; ANGIOID STREAK; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANGIOID STREAKS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; COLORING AGENTS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETREATMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957939551     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20100726-04     Document Type: Article

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