The long-term effects of an accidental injection of depot corticosteroids in an infant eye

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1017-1019

  Zwaan, Johan ^a,b  

^a KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Physicians' Plaza I ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CHILD; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CONGENITAL STRABISMUS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENSECTOMY; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRECTOMY;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0031452273     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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