Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid: Pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 579-592

  Ahmed, Muna ^a   Zein, Ghassan ^b   Khawaja, Faizullah ^b   Foster, C Stephen ^a  

^a Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institute   (United States)

^b Ahmadi Hosp   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DACLIZUMAB; DAPSONE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RETINOID; SULFANILAMIDE;

AMNION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; DEPIGMENTATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYE SURGERY; EYELID EDEMA; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAIR LOSS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFECTION; KERATOPROSTHESIS; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE PEMPHIGOID; NAUSEA; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMBLEPHARON; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRICHIASIS; VISION; VOMITING;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CONJUNCTIVITIS; HUMANS; PEMPHIGOID, BENIGN MUCOUS MEMBRANE;

EID: 4544228400     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2004.05.005     Document Type: Review

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