Multistate outbreak of toxic anterior segment syndrome, 2005

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 585-590

  Kutty, Preeta K ^a   Forster, Terri S ^a   Wood Koob, Carol ^a   Thayer, Nancy ^a   Nelson, Robert B ^a   Berke, Stanley J ^a   Pontacolone, Lillian ^a   Beardsley, Thomas L ^a   Edelhauser, Henry F ^a   Arduino, Matthew J ^a   Mamalis, Nick ^a   Srinivasan, Arjun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR PREPAREDNESS DETECTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BALANCED SALT SOLUTION; ENDOTOXIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC ANTERIOR SEGMENT SYNDROME;

ACETATES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINERALS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 41249092606     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.11.037     Document Type: Article

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