Scleritis and temporal arteritis.
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Scleritis and temporal arteritis.
Thirty consecutive patients with severe scleritis or episcleritis were admitted as in-patients to the Medical Ophthalmology Unit and assessed for systemic disease. There were seventeen women and thirteen men. The mean age was 53 with a median of 57 (range 23-83). Eighteen of the patients had scleritis: eleven of these had evidence of connective tissue disease and three of them had temporal art...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.52.613.689