An OCT Study of Anterior Nodular Episcleritis and Scleritis

Anterior scleritis and episcleritis are a well-known presentation in tuberculosis. The case of a female patient with presumed tuberculous anterior scleritis and episcleritis is discussed in this article. Anterior segment OCT was efficient in diagnosis and evaluation of the therapeutic outcome. Antit...

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Autor principal: Christakopoulos, Christos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28348907
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5742673
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description Anterior scleritis and episcleritis are a well-known presentation in tuberculosis. The case of a female patient with presumed tuberculous anterior scleritis and episcleritis is discussed in this article. Anterior segment OCT was efficient in diagnosis and evaluation of the therapeutic outcome. Antituberculosis chemotherapy was sufficient to achieve clinical remission.
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spelling pubmed-53504112017-03-27 An OCT Study of Anterior Nodular Episcleritis and Scleritis Christakopoulos, Christos Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report Anterior scleritis and episcleritis are a well-known presentation in tuberculosis. The case of a female patient with presumed tuberculous anterior scleritis and episcleritis is discussed in this article. Anterior segment OCT was efficient in diagnosis and evaluation of the therapeutic outcome. Antituberculosis chemotherapy was sufficient to achieve clinical remission. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5350411/ /pubmed/28348907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5742673 Text en Copyright © 2017 Christos Christakopoulos. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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