Predictive factors for response to medical therapy in bacterial ulcerative keratitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 234, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 731-738

  Kim, Rosa Y ^a   Cooper, Kim L ^b   Kelly, Lisa D ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYANOACRYLATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030444025     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00189353     Document Type: Article

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