Uveitis
Subtitle: fundamentals and clinical practice
By: Robert B. Nussenblatt, Scott M. Whitcup
Contributors: Whitcup, Scott M.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Mosby/Elsevier
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Edinburgh]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9781437706673
Subjects: Therapy; Immunology; Uveitis; Diagnosis
Notes: "Expert consult"--Cover.

Previous ed.: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentals; title: Elements of the immune system and concepts of intraocular inflammatory disease pathogenesis; title: Diagnosis; title: Medical history in the patient with uveitis; title: Examination of the patient with uveitis; title: Development of a differential diagnosis; title: Diagnostic testing; title: Evidence-based medicine in uveitis; title: Medical therapy and surgical intervention; title: Philosophy, goals, and approaches to medical therapy; title: Role of surgery in the patient with uveitis; title: Infectious uveitic conditions; title: Bacterial and fungal diseases; title: Spirochetal diseases; title: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; title: Acute renal necrosis and progressive outer retinal necrosis; title: Other viral diseases; title: Ocular toxoplasmosis; title: Ocular histoplasmosis; title: Toxocara canis; title: Onchocerciasis and other parasitic diseases; title: Postsurgical uveitis; title: Uveitic conditions not caused by active infection; title: Anterior uveitis; title: Scleritis; title: Intermediate uveitis; title: Sarcoidosis; title: Sympathetic ophthalmia; title: Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome; title: Birdshot retinochoroidopathy; title: Behcet's disease; title: Retinal vasculitis; title: Serpiginous choroidopathy; title: White-dot syndromes; title: Masquerade syndromes; title: Other ocular diseases and the immune response: who would have thought?