Fulminant endogenous Klebsiella pneumoniae endophthalmitis: Imaging findings

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 209-212

  Seale, Melanie ^a   Lee, Wai Kit ^a   Daffy, John ^a   Tan, Yvonne ^a   Trost, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Klebsiella pneumoniae, endophthalmitis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Panophthalmitis

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETHARGY; LIVER ABSCESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANOPHTHALMITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RIGOR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BLINDNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846149970     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-006-0550-4     Document Type: Article

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