Tuberculin skin testing in uveitis patients and treatment of presumed intraocular tuberculosis in Japan

Ophthalmology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 851-857

  Morimura, Yoshihiro ^a   Okada, Annabelle A ^a   Kawahara, Sumie ^a   Miyamoto, Yuko ^a   Kawai, Shin ^a   Hirakata, Akito ^a   Hida, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOROIDITIS; EYE INFECTION; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA VASCULITIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIFAMPIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036240934     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)00973-9     Document Type: Article

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