Intravitreal ranibizumab monotherapy to treat retinopathy of prematurity zone II, stage 3 with plus disease

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Menke, Marcel N ^a,d   Framme, Carsten ^a,b   Nelle, Mathias ^a   Berger, Markus R ^a   Sturm, Veit ^c   Wolf, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^d CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Plus disease; Ranibizumab; Retinopathy of prematurity

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; RANIBIZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN A; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; RANIBIZUMAB; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84928253907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12886-015-0001-7     Document Type: Article

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