1. The changing patterns of uveitis in a tertiary institute of Northeast India
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Dipankar Das, Harsha Bhattacharjee, Kalyan Das, Prerana S Tahiliani, Pankaj Bhattacharyya, Gayatri Bharali, Manik Das, Apurba Deka, and Rajashree Paul
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Ankylosing spondylitis ,sarcoidosis ,toxoplasmosis ,tuberculosis ,uveitis ,Ophthalmology ,RE1-994 - Abstract
Uveitis incorporates innumerable conditions, all of which are characterized by inflammation of the uveal tract. Study of etiological factors in uveitis in the population often give important disease-specific indications and changing pattern in subsequent studies are important to know further newer occurrences of various disease prevalence. Awareness of regional variation in disease configuration is essential to develop a region specific list of differential diagnoses and also for comparison with different sub-population of the country and the world. We report the changing pattern of uveitis in a tertiary institute in the Northeast India and found that tubercular uveitis had increased in hospital-based study.
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- 2015
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