Ocular side effects associated with isotretinoin

Drugs of Today

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-27

  Fraunfelder, Frederick W ^a,b,c,d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CASEY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTRETINOIN;

ACNE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; CATARACT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CHILD; COLOR VISION DEFECT; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA ULCER; DARK ADAPTATION; DIPLOPIA; EPIPHORA; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE TOXICITY; EYELID EDEMA; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; IRITIS; KERATITIS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MYDRIASIS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PIGMENT DISORDER; PTOSIS; PUPIL DISEASE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA EDEMA; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SCLERITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITREOUS DISEASE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; ISOTRETINOIN; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 1442350461     PISSN: 16993993     EISSN: 16994019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dot.2004.40.1.799435     Document Type: Review

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