Incidence of neovascularization in the fellow eye of patients with unilateral retinal angiomatous proliferation

Eye

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1585-1589

  Campa, C ^a   Harding, S P ^a   Pearce, I A ^a   Beare, N A V ^a   Briggs, M C ^a   Heimann, H ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

choroidal neovascularization; fellow eye; RAP

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VERTEPORFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA ANGIOMATOUS PROLIFERATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLIT LAMP;

EID: 78049486259     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2010.88     Document Type: Article

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