Ocular Whipple's disease: Therapeutic strategy and long-term follow-up

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1465-1469

  Touitou, Valérie ^a   Fenollar, Florence ^b   Cassoux, Nathalie ^a   Merle Beral, Helene ^a   Lehoang, Phuc ^a   Amoura, Zahir ^a   Drancourt, Michel ^b   Bodaghi, Bahram ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EYE DISEASE; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUTH ULCER; OPTIC DISK; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UVEITIS; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIFAMPIN; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; TROPHERYMA; UVEITIS; VITREOUS BODY; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 84863299727     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2012.01.024     Document Type: Article

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