Successful treatment of choroidal blastomycosis with oral administration of voriconazole

Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 334-335

  Alimony, Arghavan ^a,b   Kraus, Courtney L ^a   Apte, Rajendra S ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES RETINA INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN BIOPSY;

EID: 66749176660     PISSN: 00084182     EISSN: 17153360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3129/i09-026     Document Type: Letter

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