Successful management of tubercular subretinal granulomas

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-40

  Gupta, Vishali ^a   Gupta, Amod ^a   Sachdeva, Naresh ^a   Arora, Sunil ^a   Bambery, P ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Granuloma; Ocular tuberculosis; Tuberculoma; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ORCHITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 33644779659     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09273940500269939     Document Type: Article

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