Management of ocular conditions in the burn unit: Thermal and chemical burns and stevens-johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 547-560

  Lin, Amy ^a   Patel, Neha ^a   Yoo, David ^a   Demartelaere, Sheri ^b   Bouchard, Charles ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MINOCYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EPIPHORA; EYE BURN; GASTROINTESTINAL IRRITATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KERATITIS; MOUTH INFECTION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORBIT DISEASE; ORBITAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; VAGINITIS;

BURN UNITS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CONTRACTURE; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; EYE BURNS; HUMANS; ORBITAL DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME;

EID: 80052666606     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e31822b0f29     Document Type: Article

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