Dacryoadenitis associated with Acanthamoeba keratitis

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1239-1242

  Tomita, Machiko ^a   Shimmura, Shigeto ^a,b   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a,b   Shimazaki, Jun ^a,b  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DACRYOADENITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE SURGERY; EYE SWELLING; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LACRIMAL GLAND DISEASE; LACRIMAL SAC; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; DACRYOCYSTITIS; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748608532     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.124.9.1239     Document Type: Article

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