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ReviewDie Ophthalmologie2026

Treatment of central serous chorioretinopathy in comparison-microsecond-pulse laser versus photodynamic therapy.

Vasilena Sitnilska, Ulrike Brocks, Jan Tode, Georg Spital, Lebriz Altay

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Review in Die Ophthalmologie, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Vasilena SitnilskaDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany. vasilena.sitnilska@uk-koeln.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-4263
Ulrike BrocksDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Jan TodeClinical Department of Ophthalmology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Georg SpitalEye Center at St. Franziskus Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
Lebriz AltayDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The therapeutic management of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) remains challenging. Although CSC shows a high rate of self-resorption, frequent recurrences or chronification of the disease can result in irreversible loss of vision. Low-dose photodynamic therapy (half-dose or half-fluence PDT) represents the current standard of care for CSC, although regenerative laser procedures may also offer a safe and effective alternative for the treatment of CSC.

Indexed as

Central Serous ChorioretinopathyLaser CoagulationLaser TherapyPhotochemotherapyHumansPhotosensitizing AgentsTreatment OutcomePhotosensitizing AgentsLaser treatmentMicropulse laserPhotomicrodisruptive therapyPhotothermic therapySelective retinal treatment

Identifiers

PMID42018170

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