Orbital tuberculosis manifesting with enophthalmos and causing a diagnostic dilemma

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 219-221

  Shome, Debraj ^a   Honavar, Santosh G ^a   Vemuganti, Geeta K ^a   Joseph, Joveeta ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; METASTASIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ORBIT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; AGED; DRUG COMBINATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ORBIT DISEASE;

AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ORBITAL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 33745302466     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.iop.0000214528.96858.ad     Document Type: Article

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