Posterior scleritis: Clinical features, systemic association, treatment and evolution of 23 patients;Esclerite posterior: Características clínicas, associação sistêmica, tratamento e evolução de 23 pacientes

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-326

  de Oliveira Machado, Danuza ^a   Land Curi, André Luis ^a   Bessa, Thaís Fontes ^a   Campos, Wesley Ribeiro ^a   Oréfice, Fernando ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Pain; Prednisolone therapeutic use; Retinal detachment; Sclera ultrasonography; Scleritis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOROID; CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLERA; SCLERITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHOROID; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; SCLERITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449706205     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: 16782925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27492009000300008     Document Type: Article

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