The CD4/CD8 ratio in vitreous fluid is of high diagnostic value in sarcoidosis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2386-2392

  Kojima, Kentaro ^a   Maruyama, Kazuichi ^a   Inaba, Tohru ^b   Nagata, Kenji ^a   Yasuhara, Toru ^a   Yoneda, Kazuhito ^a   Sugita, Sunao ^c   Mochizuki, Manabu ^c   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EYE; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; OCULAR SARCOIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T LYMPHOCYTE; UVEITIS; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGI; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UVEITIS; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 84868191810     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2012.05.033     Document Type: Article

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