Ophthalmic surgery and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 446-449

  S Juan, P ^a   Ward, H J T ^a   De Silva, R ^b   Knight, R S G ^a   Will, R G ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b OLDCHURCH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DURA MATER; EYE SURGERY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOCULATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPTIC NERVE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; SCRAPIE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EYE; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1842557677     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2003.028373     Document Type: Note

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