Successful treatment of severe nodular scleritis with adalimumab

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 559-561

  Restrepo, Juan P ^a   Molina, María P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

^b SOS   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Adalimumab; Nodular scleritis; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; FOLIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EYE IRRITATION; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEUKOKORIA; NODULAR SCLERITIS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OSTEOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERITIS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950857860     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-009-1368-8     Document Type: Article

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