Long-term, multicenter evaluation of subconjunctival injection of triamcinolone for non-necrotizing, noninfectious anterior scleritis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1932-1937

  Sohn, Elliott H ^a,b   Wang, Robert ^c   Read, Russell ^d   Roufas, Athena ^e   Teo, Livia ^f   Moorthy, Ramana ^g   Albini, Thomas ^h   Vasconcelos Santos, Daniel V ^a   Dustin, Laurie D ^a   Zamir, Ehud ⁱ   Chee, Soon Phaik ^f,j   McCluskey, Peter ^e   Smith, Ronald ^a   Rao, Narsing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TEXAS RETINA ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

ⁱ ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^j NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETANERCEPT; INDOMETACIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATARACT; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLERITIS; SINGAPORE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAOCULAR; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053611855     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.02.043     Document Type: Article

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