The steroid controversy in bacterial keratitis

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1231-

  Acharya, Nisha R ^a   Srinivasan, Muthiah ^b   Mascarenhas, Jeena ^b   Ravindran, Meenakshi ^b   Rajaraman, Revathi ^b   Zegans, Michael ^b   McLeod, Stephen ^b   Lietman, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

BACTERIAL KERATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPITHELIZATION; HUMAN; KERATITIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CORNEAL ULCER; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70349251226     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.221     Document Type: Note

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