Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis

We report a rare presentation of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis. A 45-year-old male being treated with antitubercular therapy for tubercular panuveitis presented with unilateral, non-pitting right upper eyelid edema. Excision biopsy showed granulomatous inflamm...

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Autores principales: Babu, Kalpana, Gundannavar, Prashanta V, Satish, Vidya, Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20029155
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.58481
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author Babu, Kalpana
Gundannavar, Prashanta V
Satish, Vidya
Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
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description We report a rare presentation of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis. A 45-year-old male being treated with antitubercular therapy for tubercular panuveitis presented with unilateral, non-pitting right upper eyelid edema. Excision biopsy showed granulomatous inflammation involving the lymphatics. Immunohistochemistry confirmed the presence of histiocytes around the lymphatics.
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spelling pubmed-28413832010-03-24 Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis Babu, Kalpana Gundannavar, Prashanta V Satish, Vidya Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report a rare presentation of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis. A 45-year-old male being treated with antitubercular therapy for tubercular panuveitis presented with unilateral, non-pitting right upper eyelid edema. Excision biopsy showed granulomatous inflammation involving the lymphatics. Immunohistochemistry confirmed the presence of histiocytes around the lymphatics. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2841383/ /pubmed/20029155 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.58481 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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Babu, Kalpana
Gundannavar, Prashanta V
Satish, Vidya
Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis
title Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis
title_full Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis
title_fullStr Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis
title_full_unstemmed Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis
title_short Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis
title_sort melkersson-rosenthal syndrome in a patient with tubercular panuveitis
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20029155
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.58481
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