Visual and anatomic outcomes associated with posterior segment complications after ganciclovir implant procedures in patients with AIDS and cytomegalovirus retinitis

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 288-293

  Lim, Jennifer I ^a   Wolitz, Richard A ^a   Dowling, Anna H ^a   Bloom, Howard R ^a   Irvine, Alex R ^b   Schwartz, Daniel M ^b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; GANCICLOVIR; SILICONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETINAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0033104581     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(98)00443-7     Document Type: Article

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