Effect of intravitreous anti vascular endothelial growth factor therapy on choroidal thickness in neovascular age-related macular degeneration using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 693-694

  Branchini, Lauren ^a   Regatieri, Caio ^a   Adhi, Mehreen ^a   Flores Moreno, Ignacio ^c   Manjunath, Varsha ^a   Fujimoto, James G ^b   Duker, Jay S ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; RANIBIZUMAB;

ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; NEOVASCULAR AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHOROID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RETREATMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 84877702722     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2013.692     Document Type: Letter

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