Predictors for tubercular uveitis: A comparison between biopsy-proven cases of tubercular and sarcoid uveitis

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1017-1020

  Babu, Kalpana ^a   Kini, Raghuvir ^a   Mehta, Ravindra ^b   Philips, Mariamma ^c   Subbakrishna, D K ^c   Murthy, Krishna R ^a  

^a Prabha Eye Clinic and Research Centre   (India)

^b Fortis Hospitals   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

biopsy; Mantoux test; sarcoidosis; tuberculosis; uveitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL; CHORIORETINAL ATROPHY; CHOROID DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA VASCULITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOID UVEITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SCHIRMER TEST; TUBERCULAR UVEITIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UVEITIS;

BIOPSY; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL VASCULITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; TEARS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS;

EID: 84860833902     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e31822d3a20     Document Type: Article

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