Challenges of managing sympathetic ophthalmia in a young child and the role of infliximab.

J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus

St. Paul’s Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8XP, United Kingdom.

Published: July 2011

The authors report the difficult challenges and use of infliximab in the delayed presentation of a 2½-year-old boy with a penetrating eye injury from a small ballpoint pen that led to sympathetic ophthalmia.

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