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Editorial
. 2007 Feb;91(2):131-3.
doi: 10.1136/bjo.2006.106526.

Combined photodynamic therapy and intravitreal triamcinolone injection for the treatment of choroidal neovascularisation secondary to pathological myopia: a pilot study

Javier A Montero, Jose M Ruiz-Moreno
Editorial

Combined photodynamic therapy and intravitreal triamcinolone injection for the treatment of choroidal neovascularisation secondary to pathological myopia: a pilot study

Javier A Montero et al. Br J Ophthalmol. 2007 Feb.

Abstract

Intravitreous triamcinolone associated with PDT should preferably be used among elderly patients who usually show lower visual acuity and a poorer response to PDT, or among patients with recurrent or greater CNVs

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