Ocular complications of Rift Valley fever outbreak in Saudi Arabia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-318

  Al Hazmi, Ali ^a,c   Al Rajhi, Ali A ^b   Abboud, Emad B ^b   Ayoola, Ephraim A ^a   Al Hazmi, Mohammed ^a   Saadi, Rukban ^a   Ahmed, Nasser ^a  

^a King Fahad Central Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDEMA; EPIDEMIC; EYE DISEASE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINITIS; SAUDI ARABIA; SCAR FORMATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOM; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITREOUS BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLEDEMA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; RETINAL VASCULITIS; RETINITIS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SAUDI ARABIA; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 13444254041     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.09.018     Document Type: Article

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