Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor for myopic choroidal neovascularization

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ng, Danny S ^a,b   Kwok, Alvin K H ^b   Chan, Clement W ^a  

^a TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG SANATORIUM AND HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anti VEGF; Bevacizumab; Choroidal neovascularisation; Pathological myopia; Ranibizumab

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; PEGAPTANIB; RANIBIZUMAB; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VERTEPORFIN;

AGE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER COAGULATION; METAMORPHOSIS; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA FOVEA; REVIEW; SCOTOMA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84856683121     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02684.x     Document Type: Review

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