Syphilitic Punctate Inner Retinitis in Immunocompetent Gay Men

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1195-1200

  Wickremasinghe, Sanjeewa ^a,b   Ling, Cecilia ^a   Stawell, Richard ^a   Yeoh, Jonathan ^a   Hall, Anthony ^c   Zamir, Ehud ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; HAD ACUTE RETINAL ARTERIOLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS; SYPHILIS; SYPHILITIC RETINITIS; SYPHILITIC UVEITIS; UVEITIS; VITRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; PANUVEITIS; RETINAL VASCULITIS; RETINITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 67349097929     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.12.055     Document Type: Article

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