Immunologic and clinical evaluation of postsurgical necrotizing sclerocorneal ulceration

Cornea

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 371-375

  Díaz Valle, David ^a,c   Benítez Del Castillo, José M ^b   Castillo, Alfredo ^b   Sayagués, Octavio ^a   Bañares, Antonio ^b   García Sánchez, Julián ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c San Carlos University Hospital ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Cyclosporin; Necrotizing scleritis; Ocular surgery; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERITIS;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; AUTOANTIBODIES; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORNEAL ULCER; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCLERITIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 0344157845     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-199807000-00005     Document Type: Article

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