Superficial retinal precipitates in patients with syphilitic retinitis

Retina

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1135-1143

  Fu, Evelyn X ^a,b   Geraets, Ryan L ^c   Dodds, Emilio M ^d,e   Echandi, Laura V ^d,e   Colombero, Daniel ^f   McDonald, H Richard ^a,b   Jumper, J Michael ^a,b   Cunningham Jr , Emmett T ^a,g  

^a San Francisco AIDS Foundation   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL JUAN A FERNÁNDEZ   (Argentina)

^e Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^f Hospital Centenario de Rosario   (Argentina)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PAPILLITIS; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA VASCULITIS; RETINITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERFICIAL RETINA PRECIPITATE; SYPHILITIC RETINITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN G; RETINA; RETINITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77954692368     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181cdf3ae     Document Type: Article

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