Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma masquerading as posterior scleritis

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 239-240

  Al Bermani, Ayad ^a   Figueiredo, F ^a   Speight, E L ^a   Jackson, G H ^a   Pandit, R ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BLEPHARITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NECROBIOTIC DISORDER; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PARAPROTEINEMIA; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; SCLERA DISEASE; SCLERITIS; SKIN BIOPSY; VISUAL ACUITY; XANTHOGRANULOMA;

EID: 58249123363     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2008.37     Document Type: Letter

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