Vitrectomy for endogenous fungal endophthalmitis

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 148-152

  Shen, Xi ^a   Xu, Gezhi ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Causative organism; Endogenous; Fungal endophthalmitis; Predisposing risk factors; Vitrectomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; SILICONE OIL;

ABDOMEN LIOMYOSARCOMA; ABORTION; ABSCESS; ACTINOMYCES; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BLOOD SMEAR; BREAST CANCER; BUTTOCK ABSCESS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENDOGENOUS FUNGAL ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LENSECTOMY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CANCER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MYCOSIS; MYOSARCOMA; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PUERPERIUM; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETINITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; YEAST;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGI; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68849115551     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09273940802689396     Document Type: Article

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