Choroidal neovascularaization secondary to Klebsiella pneumoniae endogenous abscess and endophthalmitis

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-240

  Fong, Angie H C ^a   Li, Kenneth K W ^a   Jon, Hayden C K ^a   Lai, Wico W K ^a,b   Wong, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; GALLIUM; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LIVER ENZYME;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD CULTURE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE INFLAMMATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LASER SURGERY; LENS IMPLANT; LENSECTOMY; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SEPSIS; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREORETINOPATHY; VITREOUS DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE ENUCLEATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65449172802     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2009.02010.x     Document Type: Article

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