Volume : III, Issue : VIII, August - 2013

Ocular Tuberculosis in Apperently Healthy Individuals

Dr. Dindore Pradeep Ramchandra, Dr. Dalvi Mahesh

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In recent years tuberculosis has reemerged as a serious public health problem.Ocular tuberculosis is rarely observed in a active pulmonary tuberculosis (1) .Tuberculosis lesions may be very small or even insignificant enough to have escaped notice elsewhere in the body .But in eye it may produce not only loss of vision but often irrepairable damage to eye . Ocular TB is always considered as rare, (2) and most common occurrence is tuberculos choroiditis. Mantoux test help in dignosis of tuberculosis in almost 50% cases of tuberculosis.(7) (8).Tuberculous conjunctivitis is rarely seen in the recent decades( HELM 1993) but may be seen with increasing frequency as the disease spreads especially in vulnerable population (4), though it is mentioned in the literature the occurance of tuberculosis is rare we are herewith giving special report of ten cases of common ophthalmic presentation such as episcleritis, sclerokeratitis ,keratitis(6) phlyctinular conjunctivitis,disciform keratiti are turnout to be tuberculosis patients..

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Dr.Dindore Pradeep Ramchandra, Dr.Dalvi Mahesh Ocular Tuberculosis in Apperently Healthy Individuals Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.VIII August 2013

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