Treatment of amoeboid herpetic ulcers with adenine arabinoside or trifluorothymidine.
In previous studies adenine arabinoside and trifluorothymidine were found to be equally effective treatments for dendritic ulcers of the cornea, but a trend emerged which suggested that in amoeboid ulcers trifluorothymidine was more effective. The collection of additional cases confirms the superiority of trifluorothymidine in such cases.
D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007635:Keratitis, Dendritic / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D013936:Thymidine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D013997:Time Factors; D014271:Trifluridine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014740:Vidarabine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D014740:Vidarabine; D014271:Trifluridine; D013936:Thymidine