How Best to Treat Adenoviral Corneal Opacities?

Cornea

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-219

  Starr, Michael B ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; INTERFERON;

ADENOVIRUS; CORNEA OPACITY; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; KERATITIS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; KERATOMILEUSIS; MYOPIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CORNEAL OPACITY; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS;

EID: 1642463937     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200404000-00001     Document Type: Editorial

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