Tocilizumab for retinal vasoproliferative tumor secondary to juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis: A case report

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 163-164

  Adán, Alfredo ^a   Mesquida, Marina ^a   Llorenç, Victor ^a   Modesto, Consuelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; TOCILIZUMAB;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LETTER; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RETINA TUMOR; RETINAL VASOPROLIFERATIVE TUMOR; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84892636905     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-013-2466-5     Document Type: Letter

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