Ocular pathologic features and gadolinium deposition in nephrogenic systemic fibrosis

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 661-663

  Barker Griffith, Ann ^a   Goldberg, Jacqueline ^b,c   Abraham, Jerrold L ^a  

^a Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DURA MATER; END STAGE RENAL PARENCHYMA WITH CALCIFICATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; GIANT CELL; HEART; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCLAST; PARATHYROID HYPERPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SKIN BIOPSY; SPECTROSCOPY; TREATMENT DURATION;

CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROGENIC FIBROSING DERMOPATHY; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SCLERAL DISEASES; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955761291     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.89     Document Type: Article

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