A rare complication from prostaglandin analogue therapy

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-138

  Mukhopadhyay, Rajarshi ^a   Plumb, Andrew ^b  

^a QUEEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Prostaglandin analogue; Vellus hair

Indexed keywords

EYE DROPS; LATANOPROST; PROSTAGLANDIN F;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFECT; EYELASH; EYELID; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAIR; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EYELASHES; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PROSTAGLANDINS F, SYNTHETIC; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 61449184553     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2008.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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