Etiologies of chronic anterior uveitis at a tertiary referral center over 35 years

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-25

  Birnbaum, Andrea D ^a   Little, Deborah M ^a,b   Tessler, Howard H ^a   Goldstein, Debra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; iridocyclitis; iritis; sarcoidosis; uveitis

Indexed keywords

HLA B27 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC ANTERIOR UVEITIS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FUCHS HETEROCHROMIC IRIDOCYCLITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IRIDOCYCLITIS; IRIS DISEASE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SYMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA; SYPHILIS; UVEITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HLA-B27 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; IRIDOCYCLITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; SYPHILIS; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952835525     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09273948.2010.519852     Document Type: Article

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