Posterior scleritis in pediatric age group: A case report and review of literature

Posterior scleritis is rare in both the adult and pediatric age groups. Increased awareness and availability of advanced diagnostic facilities aid in early diagnosis and management. Visual recovery is possible with systemic steroids and immunosuppression. We report the case of a 12-year-old male chi...

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Autores principales: Shenoy, Radha, Suryawanshi, Milind, Isaac, Roshini, Philip, Santhosh K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27013832
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.176121
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author Shenoy, Radha
Suryawanshi, Milind
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description Posterior scleritis is rare in both the adult and pediatric age groups. Increased awareness and availability of advanced diagnostic facilities aid in early diagnosis and management. Visual recovery is possible with systemic steroids and immunosuppression. We report the case of a 12-year-old male child who presented with poor vision in his right eye and was found to have retinal striae and disc edema due to posterior scleritis.
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spelling pubmed-47857122016-03-24 Posterior scleritis in pediatric age group: A case report and review of literature Shenoy, Radha Suryawanshi, Milind Isaac, Roshini Philip, Santhosh K. Oman J Ophthalmol Case Report Posterior scleritis is rare in both the adult and pediatric age groups. Increased awareness and availability of advanced diagnostic facilities aid in early diagnosis and management. Visual recovery is possible with systemic steroids and immunosuppression. We report the case of a 12-year-old male child who presented with poor vision in his right eye and was found to have retinal striae and disc edema due to posterior scleritis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4785712/ /pubmed/27013832 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.176121 Text en Copyright: © Oman Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785712/
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