Slowly progressive vision loss in giant cell arteritis

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 416-418

  Galor, Anat ^b   Lee, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EYE BIOPSY; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL ARTERY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BLINDNESS; CHOROID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE HEMISUCCINATE; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644894204     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.124.3.416     Document Type: Article

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