Pictorial essay: Orbital tuberculosis

Tuberculosis of the orbit is rare, even in places where tuberculosis is endemic. The disease may involve soft tissue, the lacrimal gland, or the periosteum or bones of the orbital wall. Intracranial extension, in the form of extradural abscess, and infratemporal fossa extension has been described. T...

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Autores principales: Narula, Mahender K, Chaudhary, Vikas, Baruah, Dhiraj, Kathuria, Manoj, Anand, Rama
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Tuberculosis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20351984
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.59744
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author Narula, Mahender K
Chaudhary, Vikas
Baruah, Dhiraj
Kathuria, Manoj
Anand, Rama
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description Tuberculosis of the orbit is rare, even in places where tuberculosis is endemic. The disease may involve soft tissue, the lacrimal gland, or the periosteum or bones of the orbital wall. Intracranial extension, in the form of extradural abscess, and infratemporal fossa extension has been described. This pictorial essay illustrates the imaging findings of nine histopathologically confirmed cases of orbital tuberculosis. All these patients responded to antituberculous treatment.
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spelling pubmed-28447532010-03-26 Pictorial essay: Orbital tuberculosis Narula, Mahender K Chaudhary, Vikas Baruah, Dhiraj Kathuria, Manoj Anand, Rama Indian J Radiol Imaging Tuberculosis Tuberculosis of the orbit is rare, even in places where tuberculosis is endemic. The disease may involve soft tissue, the lacrimal gland, or the periosteum or bones of the orbital wall. Intracranial extension, in the form of extradural abscess, and infratemporal fossa extension has been described. This pictorial essay illustrates the imaging findings of nine histopathologically confirmed cases of orbital tuberculosis. All these patients responded to antituberculous treatment. Medknow Publications 2010-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2844753/ /pubmed/20351984 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.59744 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging 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.
spellingShingle Tuberculosis
Narula, Mahender K
Chaudhary, Vikas
Baruah, Dhiraj
Kathuria, Manoj
Anand, Rama
Pictorial essay: Orbital tuberculosis
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title_full Pictorial essay: Orbital tuberculosis
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title_short Pictorial essay: Orbital tuberculosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20351984
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.59744
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