Severe proliferative retinopathy progressing to blindness in a Japanese woman with Takayasu disease

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 722-723

  Kuwahara, Chihiro ^a   Imamura, Yutaka ^a   Okamura, Nobuaki ^a   Sakai, Ryouichi ^a   Ikeda, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; JAPAN; LASER COAGULATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE RETINOPATHY; RETINA DETACHMENT; SLIT LAMP; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0037404194     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(02)02087-1     Document Type: Article

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