Grid photocoagulation combined with intravitreal bevacizumab for recurrent macular edema associated with retinal vein occlusion

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1031-1036

  Ogino, Ken ^a   Tsujikawa, Akitaka ^a   Murakami, Tomoaki ^a   Muraoka, Yuki ^a   Kurashige, Yumiko ^a   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Grid laser photocoagulation; Macular edema; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal vein occlusion

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THICKNESS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79961226938     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S22923     Document Type: Article

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