Usefulness of Aqueous Humor Analysis for the Diagnosis of Posterior Uveitis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 306-311

  Rothova, Aniki ^a   de Boer, Joke H ^a   ten Dam van Loon, Ninette H ^a   Postma, Gina ^a   de Visser, Lenneke ^a   Zuurveen, Stephanie J ^a   Schuller, Margje ^a   Weersink, Annemarie J L ^a   van Loon, Anton M ^a   de Groot Mijnes, Jolanda D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHILD; CHORIORETINITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURORETINITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA VASCULITIS; RETINITIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UVEITIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRAL EYE INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, VIRAL; EYE INFECTIONS, PARASITIC; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TOXOPLASMA; UVEITIS, POSTERIOR;

EID: 38549175318     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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