PRIMARY CONJUNCTIVAL TUBERCULOSIS: A RARE MASQUERADING ENTITY

Autor:	Tarannum Shakeel, Aeshwarya Dhawan, Kavleen Kaur, Sushobhan Dasgupta
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Tuberculosis medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Rare entity Caseous necrosis Disease Histopathological examination medicine.disease Dermatology Biopsy Rare case medicine Presentation (obstetrics) business
Zdroj:	Indian Journal of Case Reports. :426-428
ISSN:	2454-1303 2454-129X
DOI:	10.32677/ijcr.2019.v05.i05.009
Popis:	Primary conjunctival tuberculosis is a rare entity in India. Here, we report a rare case of bilateral primary conjunctival tuberculosis in a 20-years-old female. She had multiple granular lesions in both the eyes for one year and was not responding to topical antibiotic or steroids. Slit-lamp examination showed multiple small subconjunctival granulomas. Conjunctival excision-biopsy revealed granulomatous inflammation with caseous necrosis. A diagnosis of primary conjunctival tuberculosis was made and anti-tubercular therapy was startedto which the patient responded rapidly with complete resolution of the lesions by 2 months. Histopathological examination of chronic non-resolving inflammatory conjunctival lesions is important as it may be a rare presentation of a disease like tuberculosis.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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