Conjunctival nodules associated with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1383-1386

  Nakao, Kumiko ^a   Shimonagano, Yuka ^a   Doi, Norihito ^a   Sakamoto, Taiji ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chorioretinal atrophy; Conjunctival nodule; Granuloma; Iris swelling; Vogt Koyanagi Harada disease

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CHOROID; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVAL BIOPSY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PAIN; EYE SYNECHIA; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; LENSECTOMY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MYDRIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; SLIT LAMP; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITRECTOMY; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; UVEOMENINGOENCEPHALITIC SYNDROME;

EID: 34548018334     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0540-6     Document Type: Article

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