Histological examination of an eye with endogenous Aspergillus endophthalmitis treated with oral voriconazole: A case report

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 887-891

  Aliyeva, Shakhsanam E ^a   Ullmann, Andrew J ^a   Kottler, Ulrike B ^a   Frising, Martine ^a   Schwenn, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Burgerhospital Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CASE REPORT; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG PENETRATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENUCLEATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE ENUCLEATION; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 8444250200     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-0901-3     Document Type: Article

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