Infectious crystalline keratopathy and endophthalmitis secondary to Mycobacterium abscessus in a monocular patient with Stevens-Johnson syndrome

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 209-210

  Uy, Harvey S ^a   Nguyen, Quan D ^a   Durand, Marlene L ^a   Paton, Barbara ^a   Foster, C Stephen ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACAMERAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KERATOPATHY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0033005217     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(98)00354-7     Document Type: Article

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