Clinicopathologic case report: Scleral buckle associated nontuberculous mycobacterial scleritis

Seminars in Ophthalmology

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 101-104

  Nielsen, Jared S ^a   Blatt, Steven ^a   Perlman, Jay I ^a,b   Gieser, Richard G ^a,c,d  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Wheaton Eye Clinic   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CEFRADINE; GENTAMICIN; POLYMYXIN B; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SILICONE; TOBRAMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; EYE INFECTION; EYE PAIN; GRANULOMA; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; SCLERA; SCLERA BUCKLING PROCEDURE; SCLERITIS; ULCER;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; REOPERATION; RETINAL DETACHMENT; SCLERAL BUCKLING; SCLERITIS;

EID: 11844269161     PISSN: 08820538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08820530490882517     Document Type: Article

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