A comparison of acyclovir and idoxuridine as treatment for ulcerative herpetic keratitis.
Open Access
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 64 (10), 763-765
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.64.10.763
Abstract
Sixty patients were treated with either acyclovir 2% ointment or idoxuridine 1% ointment 5 times a day in a stratified randomised double-blind clinical trial. The 2 antiviral agents were equally effective.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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