Ocular linear IgA disease resulting in blindness [6]

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 786-787

  Talhari, Carolina ^b   Althaus, Christoph ^b   Megahed, Mosaad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLINDNESS; BLISTER; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVAL BIOPSY; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEA PERFORATION; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENTROPION; EYE DISEASE; EYE PAIN; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LETTER; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OCULAR FIBROSIS; OCULAR LINEAR IGA DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SYMBLEPHARON; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLINDNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MALE;

EID: 33745260713     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.142.6.786     Document Type: Letter

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