Pars plana vitrectomy for vitreous opacity associated with ocular sarcoidosis resistant to medical treatment

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-43

  Ieki, Yoshiaki ^a   Kiryu, Junichi ^a   Kita, Mihori ^b   Tanabe, Teruyo ^a   Tsujikawa, Akitaka ^a   Yamashiro, Kenji ^a   Miyamoto, Noriko ^a   Miura, Shinji ^a   Honda, Yoshihito ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pars plana vitrectomy; Sarcoidosis; Vitreous opacity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CILIARY DISK; CILIARY DISK VITRECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE DISEASE; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYE SARCOIDOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LENS IMPLANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; SARCOIDOSIS; SLIT LAMP; SNELLEN VISUAL ACUITY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS OPACITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG RESISTANCE; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SARCOIDOSIS; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 1642484439     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ocii.12.1.35.28070     Document Type: Article

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