Acute retinal necrosis

Acute retinal necrosis

] valacyclovir and famciclovir.cite journal |author=Emerson GG, Smith JR, Wilson DJ, Rosenbaum JT, Flaxel CJ |title=Primary treatment of acute retinal necrosis with oral antiviral therapy |journal=Ophthalmology |volume=113 |issue=12 |pages=2259–61 |year=2006 |pmid=16996614 |doi=10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.05.063 |url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0161-6420(06)00760-3]

ee also

* Cytomegalovirus retinitis
* Progressive outer retinal necrosis

References

External links

* http://www.iceh.org.uk/files/tsno8/text/18.htm
* http://www.eyepathologist.org/disease.asp?IDNUM=301330


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