Extensive Chorioretinitis and Severe Vision Loss Associated With West Nile Virus Meningoencephalitis
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Extensive chorioretinitis and severe vision loss associated with west nile virus meningoencephalitis.
under redundant dysplastic tissue normally lining the anomalous wall, anterior displacement of this tissue could change the appearance of the optic nerve (Figure 2B) as we observed in our 3 patients. In a similar manner, following vitrectomy and fluid-gas exchange in the aforementioned 24-year-old woman, Johnson and Johnson photographically documented the presence of a gas bubble trapped under ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Ophthalmology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-9950
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.123.12.1754