Literature DB >> 8717083

[Tuberculosis of the tarsal conjunctiva].

C Mocanu1.   

Abstract

A woman sixty-five old presents one pronounced swelling of the eyelids at the both eyes with the appearance of the multiple chalasions. The patient at twenty-six years old presented pulmonary tuberculosis, in the present stabilized. The morphopathology exam by a fragment of tarsus and conjunctiva shows an lymphocyt inflammatory infiltration with the presence of the epithelial cells and caseation areas. At level of conjunctiva it constats the presence of tuberculum follicles that are present too at the level of Meibomius canals of excretions. The disease is considered like an allergical reaction at endotoxin of Koch bacillus, secondary by some old tubercular lesions.

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Year:  1996        PMID: 8717083

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Oftalmologia        ISSN: 1220-0875


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Review 1.  Orbital and external ocular manifestations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A review of the literature.

Authors:  Lauren A Dalvin; Wendy M Smith
Journal:  J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis       Date:  2015-11-27
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