Nodular posterior scleritis associated with presumed ocular tuberculosis: A multimodal imaging case report.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe a patient with nodular posterior scleritis associated with presumed ocular tuberculosis (TB).

Observations

A 25-year-old Caucasian man reported metamorphopsia in the right eye (OD). He had lost the vision in his left eye when he was 15 years old. The visual acuity (VA) levels were 20/20 and light perception in the right and left eyes, respectively. Wide-field color fundus photography, fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography, optical coherence tomography, and ultrasound suggested an inflammatory condition associated with an elevated lesion in the choroid/sclera. The purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test and all other screening tests were negative. A diagnosis of presumed nodular posterior scleritis was made and after oral corticosteroid therapy

SUBMITTER: Moreira-Neto C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6804507 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature