Review for disease of the year: Differential diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-179

  Vasconcelos Santos, Daniel Vitor ^a,b   Dodds, Emilio M ^c   Oréfice, Fernando ^a,b  

^a Division of Macula Imaging and Treatment   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

differential diagnosis; ocular toxoplasmosis; retinochoroiditis; uveitis

Indexed keywords

AMPIGINOUS CHOROIDITIS; BACTERIAL ENDOPHTHALMITIS; BARTONELLA; BEHCET DISEASE; CHORIORETINITIS; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROIDITIS; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE UNILATERAL SUBACUTE NEURORETINITIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE DISEASE; FUNGAL ENDOPHTHALMITIS; HUMAN; KIRISAWA UVEITIS; LYMPHOMA; MULTIFOCAL CHOROIDITIS AND PANUVEITIS; MULTIPLE EVANESCENT WHITE DOT SYNDROME; NECROTIZING HERPETIC RETINOPATHY; NEURORETINITIS; POSTNATALLY ACQUIRED TOXOPLASMOSIS; PRIMARY VITREORETINAL LYMPHOMA; PUNCTATE INNER CHOROIDOPATHY; RETINITIS; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; SERPIGINOUS CHOROIDITIS; SYPHILIS; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMIC RETINOCHORODITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOUS POSTERIOR UVEITIS; UNILATERAL ACUTE IDIOPATHIC MACULOPATHY; UVEITIS;

CHORIORETINITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; EYE NEOPLASMS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MACULA LUTEA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL NECROSIS SYNDROME, ACUTE; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINITIS; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS, POSTERIOR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 79957502994     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09273948.2011.581407     Document Type: Review

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