Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges

Retina

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 954-959

  Reddy, Shantan ^a   Roe, Richard ^a   Cunningham Jr , Emmett T ^a   Flaxel, Christina ^a   Emerson, Geoffrey ^a   Ober, Michael ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHOROID TUMOR; CHOROIDITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS RETINOPATHY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETINOPATHY; SLIT LAMP; TUBERCULOUS CHOROIDITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHOROID DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 33749606635     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.iae.0000250012.06650.ec     Document Type: Article

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