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Retinal abscess: case report of an uncommon evolution
A Trigui1, H Laabidi, M Khairallah
1Department of Ophthalmology, Habib Bourguiba University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia. amira.trigui@tunet.tn
International Ophthalmology
|July 20, 2011
Abstract:
We report a case of focal subretinal abscess in a 27-year-old diabetic man presenting with Staphylococcus sepsis. The follow-up study was based on visual acuity (VA), fundus photography, fluorescein angiography, ultrasound and optical coherence tomography, and an intravenous specific antibiotic was administered with an unusual good outcome.
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