Chet computerized tomography in the evaluation of uveiti in elderly women

PURPOE: To decribe the uefulne of chet computerized tomography (CT) in the evaluation of uveiti in elderly women and the clinical characteritic of patient with an abnormal chet CT can. DEIGN: Propective noncomparative cae erie. METHOD: We evaluated 30 elderly women, aged 61–83 year, with chronic iriti, vitriti, or choroiditi and with no definitive caue for their uveiti. All patient underwent a battery of diagnotic laboratory tudie and chet CT. REULT: The diagnotic examination in mot patient included erum angiotenin converting enzyme level, erum lyozyme, rapid plama reagin level, fluorecent treponemal antibody-aborption tet, purified protein derivative kin tet, and chet x-ray. Chet CT performed on all patient howed parenchymal, mediatinal, and/or hilar adenopathy in 17 patient (57%). Hitopathologic confirmation of arcoidoi with noncaeating granuloma in the biopy pecimen wa obtained in 14 patient: eight by mediatinocopy, two by bronchocopy, two by conjunctival biopy, one by naal biopy, and one by vitreou biopy. CONCLUION: Chet CT can be ueful in elderly female patient with chronic uveiti for identifying mediatinal lymphadenopathy and other leion uggetive of arcoidoi, a well a to help guide tiue confirmation and to rule out other diagnoe including lymphoma