Optic disk edema as the presenting sign of Lyme disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 639-640

  Fedorowski, Jaroslaw J ^b   Hyman, Charles ^b   Ehsanipoor, Kaveh ^a  

^a MEMORIAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PAPILLEDEMA; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0029812107     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.3.639     Document Type: Article

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