Acute bilateral serous macular detachment associated with gallium nitrate in a patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Retina

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 212-214

  Moon, Suk J ^a   Han, Dennis P ^a  

^a EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallium nitrate; Lymphoma; Macula; Serous detachment; Toxicity; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM NITRATE;

ACUTE BILATERAL SEROUS MACULA DETACHMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INFUSION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GALLIUM; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; RETINAL DETACHMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 14944364671     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200502000-00016     Document Type: Article

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