Acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis following intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1775-1778

  Song, Ji Hun ^a   Hong, Young Taek ^a   Kwon, Oh Woong ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Intravitreal injection; Placoid chorioretinitis; Retinal infiltrates; Syphilis; Triamcinolone acetonide

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN G; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ACUTE SYPHILITIC POSTERIOR PLACOID CHORIORETINITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHORIORETINITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSYPHILIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINITIS; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ATROPHY; CHORIORETINITIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSYPHILIS; SYPHILIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 56049090536     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0928-y     Document Type: Article

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