Clinical features of tuberculous serpiginouslike choroiditis in contrast to classic serpiginous choroiditis

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 853-858

  Vasconcelos Santos, Daniel V ^a   Rao, P Kumar ^b   Davies, John B ^b   Sohn, Elliott H ^a   Rao, Narsing A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETHAMBUTOL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ISONIAZID; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VALACICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOROIDITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNICITY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS SERPIGINOUSLIKE CHOROIDITIS; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHOROIDITIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 77955002906     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.116     Document Type: Article

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