Intravitreal anti-VEGF therapy with prompt or deferred laser compared with steroid with prompt laser and prompt laser alone for treatment of diabetic macular edema

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 227-229

  Sun, Jennifer K ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 80051600604     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-011-0201-3     Document Type: Article

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