title: Treatment of Coats' disease with photocoagulation.
abstract: 71 eyes with Coats' disease were treated with photocoagulation. By coagulation of the abnormal vessels the disease process could be halted in 64 eyes over a mean observation time of 2 years and 3 months after completion of treatment. In 51 of these eyes the lipoid deposits regressed. In only 7 eyes a progression of the disease could not be prevented. Complications of photocoagulation treatment were not observed.
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008028:Light Coagulation; D012166:Retinal Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery; D012173:Retinitis / Q000601:surgery*; D013577:Syndrome; D013684:Telangiectasis / Q000601:surgery; D014792:Visual Acuity