Immune-mediated tuberculous uveitis - A rare association with papulonecrotic tuberculid.
Indian J Ophthalmol
; 67(7): 1207-1209, 2019 07.
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ABSTRACT
The tuberculids are a group of distinct clinicopathological form of skin lesions representing hypersensitivity reaction to hematogenous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or its antigen from an underlying active or a silent focus of tuberculosis elsewhere in the body in an individual with a strong antituberculous cell-mediated immunity and by definition do not show bacilli on special stains and are culture-negative. Ocular involvement can occur in tuberculosis, both due to direct invasion by the bacilli as well as an immune-mediated reaction; however, immune-mediated tuberculous uveitis occurring as a hypersensitivity response in association with PNT has hardly been reported in the literature. Here we report one such rare case.
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Pele
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Tuberculose Cutânea
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Uveíte
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Infecções Oculares Bacterianas
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Tuberculose Ocular
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Antígenos de Bactérias
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Adult
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Humans
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Male
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En
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article