Intravitreal triamcinolone in two patients with refractory macular oedema in sarcoid uveitis [1]

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 618-619

  Larsson, Jörgen ^a   Hvarfner, Charlotte ^a   Skarin, Angelika ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG REEXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR EDEMA, CYSTOID; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; SARCOIDOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UVEITIS, POSTERIOR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 27144449343     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00440.x     Document Type: Letter

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