Acute pancreatitis presenting as sudden blindness;Pérdida de visión como diagnóstico de pancreatitis aguda

Archivos de la Sociedad Espanola de Oftalmologia

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 161-164

  Lopez Tizon E ^a,b   Reinoso Montalvo, C ^a   Mencia Gutierrez E ^a   Gutierrez Diaz E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Purstcher like retinopathy; Sudden blindness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; RETINA DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; RETINAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33750113930     PISSN: 03656691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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