Thalidomide effectiveness for bilateral chronic idiopathic anterior uveitis in a three-year-old child

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 70-73

  Parentin, Fulvio ^a   Da Pozzo, Stefano ^a   Lepore, Loredana ^a   Perissutti, Paolo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Thalidomide; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; THALIDOMIDE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IRIDOCYCLITIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CATARACT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IRIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; THALIDOMIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 0035189281     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050830     Document Type: Article

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