Lack of consensus in the diagnosis and treatment for ocular tuberculosis among uveitis specialists

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 25-31

  Lou, Susan M ^a   Larkin, Kelly L ^b   Winthrop, Kevin ^c   Rosenbaum, James T ^a,d   Accorinti, Massimo ^c   Androudi, Sofia ^c   Arellanes, Lourdes ^c   Becker, Matthias ^c   Bodaghi, Bahram ^c   Chee, Soon Phaik ^c   De Smet, ^c   Marc, D ^c   Kramer, Michal ^c   Larkin, Genevieve ^c   Lightman, Sue ^c   Lim, Lyndell ^c   Lopez, Juan ^c   Mackensen, Friederike ^c   McCluskey, Peter ^c   Muccioli, Cristina ^c   Okada Annabelle, A ^c   Okhravi, Narciss ^c   Vasconcelos Santos, Daniel ^c   Zamir, Peter McCluskey ^c   Zierhut, Manfred ^c   Acharya, Nisha ^c   Birnbaum, Andrea ^c   Butler, Nicholas J ^c   Callanan, David ^c   Cunningham, Emmett ^c   Dahr, Sam ^c   Davis, Janet L ^c   Derzko Dzulynsky, Larissa ^c   Dunn, James ^c   Edwards, Albert O ^c   Faia, Lisa ^c   Falk, Naomi ^c   Forooghian, Farzin ^c   Foster, C Stephen ^c   Friedman, Alan H ^c   Garg, Sunir ^c   Gaudio, Paul ^c   Gentile, Ronald ^c   Goldstein, Debra ^c   Jabs, Douglas ^c   Jaffe, Glen ^c   Kansupada, Kashyap ^c   Kaplan, Henry ^c   Kedhar, Sanjay ^c   Kempen, John H ^c   Kurup, Shree ^c   Kurz, Daryl ^c   Kurz, Paul ^c   Latkany, Paul ^c   Lewis, Richard A ^c   Levinson, Ralph ^c   Levy Clarke, Grace ^c   Lobo, Ann Marie ^c   Margolis, Todd ^c   Moorthy, Ramana ^c   Nguyen, Quan Dong ^c   Palestine, Alan ^c   Papliodis Pulido, Jose ^c   George, N ^c   Rao, Narsing ^c   Rao, P Kumar ^c   Read, Russell W ^c   Rohena, Roberto Diaz ^c   Samson, Michael ^c   Schwab, Ivan R ^c   Sen, Nida ^c   Shields, Jerry ^c   Smith, Wendy M ^c   Sobrin, Lucia ^c   Soukiasian, Sarkis ^c   Tabbara, Khalid F ^c   Tesler, Howard ^c   Thorne, Jennifer ^c   Van Gelder, Russell ^c   Vitale, Albert T ^c   Wang, Robert ^c   Whitcup, Scott ^c   Zegans, Michael ^c   Beardsley, Robert ^c   Hwang, Thomas ^c   Suhler, Eric ^c   more..

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Public Health and Preventative Medicine ^*

^d DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Post test probability; Pretest probability; Tuberculosis; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ETHAMBUTOL PLUS ISONIAZID PLUS PYRAZINAMIDE PLUS RIFAMPICIN; INTERLEUKIN 2; PREDNISONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CONSENSUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GRANULOMATOUS PANUVEITIS; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INTERMEDIATE UVEITIS; IRIDOCYCLITIS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORTH AMERICA; OCULAR TUBERCULOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULIN TEST; UVEITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR; UNITED STATES;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR; UNITED STATES; UVEITIS;

EID: 84921709676     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09273948.2014.926936     Document Type: Article

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