Diagnostic dilemmas in retinitis and endophthalmitis

Eye

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 194-201

  Davis, J L ^a  

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

Author keywords

acute retinal necrosis; chorioretinitis; cytomegalovirus retinitis; endophthalmitis; PCR; syphilis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; INDOCYANINE GREEN; RIFABUTIN; TRIAMCINOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VALACICLOVIR; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CHORIORETINITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPOPYON; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL HISTORY; NECROTIZING CHORIORETINITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETINITIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; UVEITIS; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84856619467     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2011.299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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