Combined arteriovenous sheathotomy and intraoperative intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide for branch retinal vein occlusion

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1483-1489

  Hwang, John C ^a   Gelman, Susan K ^a   Fine, Howard F ^a   Chang, Stanley ^a   Del Priore, Lucian V ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHEATHOTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CILIARY DISK; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR SURGERY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; INTRAVESICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 78149489632     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.167270     Document Type: Article

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