Conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma harboring Leishmania amastigotes in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1230-1231

  Bielory, Brett P ^a   Lari, Hamed B ^b   Mirani, Neena ^c   Kapila, Rajendra ^c   Fitzhugh, Valerie A ^c   Turbin, Roger E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; AZITHROMYCIN; CD68 ANTIGEN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CONJUNCTIVAL BIOPSY; EPIPHORA; EYE PAIN; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEISHMANIA; LETTER; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; EYE INFECTIONS, PARASITIC; HISTIOCYTES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS DISEASES; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; MACROPHAGES; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 80052805876     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.252     Document Type: Letter

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