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Treatment of Amoeboid Herpetic Ulcers with Adenine Arabinoside or Trifluorothymidine

Overview
Journal Br J Ophthalmol
Specialty Ophthalmology
Date 1979 Jun 1
PMID 111704
Citations 12
Authors
D J Coster
B R Jones
J I McGill
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Abstract

In previous studies adenine arabinoside and trifluorothymidine were found to be equally effective treatments for dendritic ulcers of the cornea, but a trend emerged which suggested that in amoeboid ulcers trifluorothymidine was more effective. The collection of additional cases confirms the superiority of trifluorothymidine in such cases.

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