A description of human T-lymphotropic virus type I-related chronic interstitial keratitis in 20 patients

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 305-308

  Merle, Harold ^a,b   Cabre, Philippe ^a   Merle, Sylvie ^a,b   Gerard, Max ^a   Smadja, Didier ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE FORT DE FRANCE   (France)

^b Entrée Hôpital Clarac   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA STROMA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; INVALIDITY; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPASTIC PARESIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; VIRUS KERATITIS; VIRUS TYPING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORNEAL OPACITY; CORNEAL STROMA; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HTLV-I ANTIBODIES; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0035126901     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(00)00645-0     Document Type: Article

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