Legacy of the endophthalmitis vitrectomy study

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 559-561

  Flynn Jr , Harry W ^a   Scott, Ingrid U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 42249110488     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.4.559     Document Type: Short Survey

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