Visual recovery in treated bacterial keratitis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1310-1311.e3

  Srinivasan, Muthiah ^a   Mascarenhas, Jeena ^a   Rajaraman, Revathi ^a   Ravindran, Meenakshi ^a   Lalitha, Prajna ^a   Ray, Kathryn J ^b   Zegans, Michael E ^d   Acharya, Nisha R ^b,c   Lietman, Thomas M ^b,c   Keenan, Jeremy D ^b,c  

^a ARAVIND EYE CARE SYSTEM   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PLACEBO;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL KERATITIS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORNEA ULCER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SPECTACLES; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; CORNEAL ULCER; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLINES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84901788249     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.12.041     Document Type: Article

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