Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy: Outcome and visual prognosis

Retina

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 994-1001

  Fiore, Tito ^a   Iaccheri, Barbara ^b   Androudi, Sofia ^b,c   Papadaki, Thekla G ^b   Anzaar, Fahd ^b   Brazitikos, Periklis ^c   D'Amico, Donald J ^a   Stephen Foster, C ^b,d  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE RESEARCH AND SURGERY INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

APMPPE; Placoid pigment epitheliopathy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE POSTERIOR MULTIFOCAL PLACOID PIGMENT EPITHELIOPATHY; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PROGNOSIS; RETINA FOVEA; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68249088969     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181a0bd15     Document Type: Article

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