1. [Intraocular Inflammation: Autoimmune or Infectious?].
- Author
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Auw-Hädrich C, Heinzelmann S, and Coupland S
- Subjects
- Anti-Inflammatory Agents administration & dosage, Autoimmune Diseases microbiology, Diagnosis, Differential, Evidence-Based Medicine, Eye Infections drug therapy, Eye Infections microbiology, Eye Infections pathology, Female, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis microbiology, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Treatment Outcome, Uveitis microbiology, Autoimmune Diseases drug therapy, Autoimmune Diseases pathology, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis drug therapy, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis pathology, Uveitis drug therapy, Uveitis pathology
- Abstract
Presentation of 3 cases of intraocular inflammation: 1. 47-year old female patient with severe necrotising scleritis and uveitis with underlying granulomatous polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener granulomatosis, in honour of the German pathologist Friedrich Wegener), known for 10 years. 2. 48-year old male patient with longstanding bilateral uveitis and granulomatous polyangiitis for 2 years. In the histopathological examination of the enucleation specimen, a retrolental tumour turned out to be a granuloma. 3. 57-year old male patient in status post renal transplantation with intraocular cellular infiltration suspicious for lymphoma, which surprisingly proved to be Toxoplasma gondii-associated uveitis. The clinical course and characteristic histological signs and therapeutic options are discussed., (Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.)
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- 2016
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