Fungal endophthalmitis: Fourteen years' experience from a center in India

Retina

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1400-1407

  Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a   Shivaprakash, M R ^a   Singh, Ramandeep ^a   Tarai, Bansidhar ^a   George, Varghese K ^a   Fomda, Bashir A ^a   Gupta, Amod ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CILIARY DISK; CLASSIFICATION; COLLETOTRICHUM; CORNEA EDEMA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; FUNGAL ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HUMAN; HYPOPYON; INDIA; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROBIOLOGY; PAECILOMYCES LILACINUS; PETRIELLIDIUM BOYDII; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICHOSPORON CUTANEUM; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; AQUEOUS HUMOR; DRUG COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FUNGAL EYE INFECTION; FUNGUS; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TIME; VITREOUS BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 58949084309     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318185e943     Document Type: Article

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