Posterior sub-Tenon's steroid injections for the treatment of posterior ocular inflammation: Indications, efficacy and side effects

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 289-295

  Dafflon, Marina Lafranco ^a   Tran, Van Tao ^a   Guex Crosier, Yan ^a   Herbort, Carl P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B27 ANTIGEN; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ARTICLE; CATARACT; DRUG EFFICACY; EYE INFLAMMATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE UVEITIS; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UVEITIS, POSTERIOR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0345369557     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050235     Document Type: Article

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