Acute Retinal Necrosis: Clinical Features, Early Vitrectomy, and Outcomes

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Hillenkamp, Jost ^a   Nölle, Bernhard ^a   Bruns, Claudia ^a   Rautenberg, Peter ^a   Fickenscher, Helmut ^a   Roider, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; PREDNISOLONE; VALACICLOVIR;

ACUTE RETINA NECROSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; PHTHISIS BULBI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLERA BUCKLING PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BIOPSY;

ACYCLOVIR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RETINAL NECROSIS SYNDROME, ACUTE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349471104     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.03.029     Document Type: Article

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