Orbital Lobular Panniculitis in Weber-Christian Disease: Sustained Response to Anti-TNF Treatment and Review of the Literature

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 584-589

  Mavrikakis, Ioannis ^a   Georgiadis, Thomas ^a   Fragiadaki, Kalliopi ^b   Sfikakis, Petros P ^b  

^a METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Enophthalmos; Lobular panniculitis; Orbit; Proptosis; Weber Christian disease

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENOPHTHALMOS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EYELID EDEMA; EYELID ERYTHEMA; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEUKOPENIA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; ORBIT DISEASE; ORBITAL LOBULAR PANNICULITIS; PANNICULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PTOSIS; REVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; WEBER CHRISTIAN PANNICULITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENOPHTHALMOS; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORBITAL DISEASES; PANNICULITIS, NODULAR NONSUPPURATIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 77957753284     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2010.05.001     Document Type: Review

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