Two-year results of reduced-fluence photodynamic therapy combined with intravitreal ranibizumab for typical age-related macular degeneration and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 283-293

  Yoshida, Yusaku ^a   Kohno, Takeya ^a   Yamamoto, Manabu ^a   Yoneda, Tasuku ^a   Iwami, Hisashi ^a   Shiraki, Kunihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy; Ranibizumab; Reduced fluence photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCED FLUENCE PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHOROID; CHOROID DISEASES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84877726570     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: 16132246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10384-013-0234-z     Document Type: Article

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