Intravitreal bevacizumab for juxtafoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to multifocal choroiditis

Retina

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 953-956

  Parodi, Maurizio B ^a   Iacono, Pierluigi ^b   Mansour, Ahamad ^c   Benedetto, Umberto De ^a   Knutsson, Karl A ^a   Bandello, Francesco ^a   Ziemssen, Focke ^d   Ness, Thomas ^e   Dodwell, David ^f  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

ADULT; ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHOROIDITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIFOCAL CHOROIDITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINAL THICKNESS; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CHOROIDITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84876982775     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318275397c     Document Type: Article

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