Amyloidosis of lacrimal gland

Primary localized amyloidosis of lacrimal gland is a rare occurrence. This report describes a female patient with isolated amyloidosis of the lacrimal gland. A 45-year-old Indian woman presented with a swelling over the left lacrimal gland region. Computed tomography showed uniform enlargement of th...

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Autores principales: Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C, Babu, Kalpana, Mahadevan, Anitha, Murthy, Sowmya Raveendra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19861750
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57160
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author Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
Babu, Kalpana
Mahadevan, Anitha
Murthy, Sowmya Raveendra
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description Primary localized amyloidosis of lacrimal gland is a rare occurrence. This report describes a female patient with isolated amyloidosis of the lacrimal gland. A 45-year-old Indian woman presented with a swelling over the left lacrimal gland region. Computed tomography showed uniform enlargement of the lacrimal gland. A lacrimal gland biopsy revealed amyloidosis. No systemic involvement was detected on further investigation. To our knowledge, this is the first report of lacrimal gland amyloidosis from India and our report also highlights the importance of lacrimal gland biopsy in diagnosing lacrimal gland masses.
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spelling pubmed-28127672010-02-08 Amyloidosis of lacrimal gland Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C Babu, Kalpana Mahadevan, Anitha Murthy, Sowmya Raveendra Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Primary localized amyloidosis of lacrimal gland is a rare occurrence. This report describes a female patient with isolated amyloidosis of the lacrimal gland. A 45-year-old Indian woman presented with a swelling over the left lacrimal gland region. Computed tomography showed uniform enlargement of the lacrimal gland. A lacrimal gland biopsy revealed amyloidosis. No systemic involvement was detected on further investigation. To our knowledge, this is the first report of lacrimal gland amyloidosis from India and our report also highlights the importance of lacrimal gland biopsy in diagnosing lacrimal gland masses. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2812767/ /pubmed/19861750 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57160 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
Babu, Kalpana
Mahadevan, Anitha
Murthy, Sowmya Raveendra
Amyloidosis of lacrimal gland
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title_full Amyloidosis of lacrimal gland
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title_full_unstemmed Amyloidosis of lacrimal gland
title_short Amyloidosis of lacrimal gland
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19861750
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57160
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