Reduction in choroidal thickness of macular area in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy patients after intravitreal ranibizumab therapy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 251, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2415-2420

  Nishide, Tadayuki ^a   Hayakawa, Natsuki ^a   Nakanishi, Misako ^a   Ishii, Mai ^a   Okazaki, Shinya ^a   Kimura, Ikuko ^a   Shibuya, Etsuko ^a   Mizuki, Nobuhisa ^a  

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

Author keywords

Choroidal thickness; Enhanced depth imaging; Optical coherence tomography; Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy; Ranibizumab

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLERA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; POLYPS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84890554753     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-013-2419-z     Document Type: Article

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