• Title of article

    Tuberculou granuloma managed by full thickne eye wall reection

  • Author/Authors

    Lingam Gopal، نويسنده , , riniva K. Rao، نويسنده , , Jyotirmay Biwa، نويسنده , , Hajib N. Madhavan، نويسنده , , wati Agarwal، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    2
  • From page
    93
  • To page
    94
  • Abstract
    Purpoe To report the ue of eye wall reection in the management of tuberculou granuloma. Deign Interventional cae report. Method In a 26-year-old man with biopy-proven tuberculou granuloma of the left eye, total eye wall reection and donor cleral grafting wa performed for management of tuberculou granuloma involving the clera, part of the cornea, the iri, the chamber angle, and the ciliary body. Adjuvant therapy included oral antitubercular medication. Reult The treatment of the infection wa ucceful. The cleral graft healed well, and the crytalline len wa preerved. Concluion Total eye wall reection, a technique decribed in the management of uveal tumor, can be adopted to manage elected cae of tuberculou granuloma of the eye.
  • Journal title
    American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Record number

    624058