Sudden reversible vitritis after keratoprosthesis: An immune phenomenon?

Cornea

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 915-919

  Nouri, Mahnaz ^a   Durand, Marlene L ^a   Dohlman, Claes H ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Keratoprosthesis; Sterile vitritis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; OFLOXACIN; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMICAL BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; ERYTHEMA; EYE PAIN; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; KERATOPROSTHESIS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE PEMPHIGOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS DISEASE; VITRITIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE CEMENTS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE BURNS; EYE DISEASES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 28044452690     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000159736.60424.ff     Document Type: Article

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