Corneal Staining in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
| Autor: | George Link Spaeth |
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| Rok vydání: | 1967 |
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Eye Manifestations Male medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Corneal staining Adolescent Eye Diseases genetic structures medicine.medical_treatment Magnification Binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy Retina Cornea Ophthalmology medicine Humans Lupus Erythematosus Systemic In patient Eye Finding Child Saline Staining and Labeling business.industry Retinal Vessels Chloroquine General Medicine Middle Aged Fluoresceins eye diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Female sense organs business Pigmentation Disorders |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 276:1168-1171 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm196705252762102 |
| Popis: | AMONG the various ocular abnormalities in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus corneal changes have rarely been mentioned.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Together with other eye findings, however, they form an important part of the clinical picture of this disease. Materials and Methods Twenty-four patients hospitalized at the National Institutes of Health were given thorough ocular examinations, including slit-lamp biomicroscopy, binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy with pupils dilated, tonography and perimetry. After instillation of a drop from a fluorescein-impregnated filter paper strip‡ moistened with physiologic saline solution, the cornea was inspected with the Haag–Streit biomicroscope (magnification twenty-five times with a cobalt-blue filter in front of the light . . . |
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