An unusually longstanding, strictly ocular, limited form of Wegener's granulomatosis [5]

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 123-125

  Tsironi, Evangelia ^a,b,c   Eftaxias, B ^a   Karabatsas, C H ^b   Ioachim, E ^a   Kalogeropoulos, Chr ^a   Psilas, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORNEA PERFORATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATITIS; KERATOPLASTY; LETTER; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; SCLERA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 14744272805     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2004.00333.x     Document Type: Letter

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