Invasive aspergillosis of the orbit in immunocompetence;Invasive aspergillose mit orbitabefall unter immunkompetenz

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 280-284

  Framme, Carsten ^a   Rosenfeld, Jochen ^b   Sachs, Helmut G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; Fungal infections; Optic neuropathy; Orbital disease; Visual loss

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CASE REPORT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MUCOCELE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; ORBIT INFECTION; SPHENOID SINUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUCOCELE; ORBITAL DISEASES; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPHENOID SINUS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034073564     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003470050527     Document Type: Article

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