A challenging case of tuberculosis-associated uveitis after corticosteroid treatment for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
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Su-Qin Yu. Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, No.100, Haining Road, Shanghai 200080, China. sq-yu@163.com

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Tian-Wei Qian, Su-Qin Yu, Xun Xu. ,/et al.A challenging case of tuberculosis-associated uveitis after corticosteroid treatment for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease. Int J Ophthalmol, 2018,11(8):1430-1432

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  • Received:February 23,2018
  • Revised:May 25,2018
  • Online: August 07,2018