Acute unilateral anterior uveitis and scleritis following a single infusion of zoledronate for metastatic breast cancer

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 370-371

  Moore, Melissa M ^a   Beith, Jane M ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; HOMATROPINE; PACLITAXEL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; STEROID; ZOLEDRONIC ACID; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PHOTOPHOBIA; SCLERITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; BONE TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DIPHOSPHONATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERITIS; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 44049084270     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01658.x     Document Type: Article

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