The use of apraclonidine in the diagnosis of horner syndrome in pediatric patients.

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  • Darron A Bacal
  • Susan R Levy
چکیده

a dosage of 50 mg/d for 3 days. There was no recurrence of epithelial ingrowth or diffuse lamellar keratitis. Culture results remained negative. All sutures were removed on postoperative day 11. The prednisolone was tapered, and the ofloxacin treatment was discontinued. At postoperative month 8, there was mild interface haze (Figure 3). In the affected eye, the uncorrected visual acuity was 20/25, and the best spectacle-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 with a refractive error of −0.50 D + 0.75 D 72.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of ophthalmology

دوره 122 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004