Uveitis in Infancy.
- Author:
Sang Min KIM
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- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Arthritis, Juvenile; Blindness; Cytomegalovirus Infections; Humans; Incidence; Sarcoidosis; Toxoplasmosis; Uveitis*
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1973;14(2):165-169
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: Since the advent of various antibiotics and corticosteroids contributed very much the treatment of ocular inflammatory diseases, still not rare of uveitis patients in infancy tends to fall blindness because of inability to confirm the true cause of most uveitis by recent diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Incidence, clinical characteristics and modern therapeutic measures are briefly discussed. Toxoplasmosis, Sarcoidosis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and cytomegalic inclusion disease are reviewed.
