Topical antibiotics to reduce the risk of endophthalmitis after intravitreal injection?

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1222-1223

  Ziemssen, Focke ^a   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; INJECTION; NOTE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; RISK FACTORS; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77956995407     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.173     Document Type: Letter

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