Fibrosis of extramacular angioid streaks following ranibizumab treatment of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bloch, Sara B ^a,b   Larsen, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b JOHN F KENNEDY INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB; VALSARTAN;

ADULT; ANGIOID STREAK; CASE REPORT; CHOROID; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANGIOID STREAKS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULA LUTEA; RETREATMENT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79551565632     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01813.x     Document Type: Letter

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