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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Caplash, Sonny
• Paez-Escamilla, Manuel
• Westcott, Mark
• Dansingani, Kunal K.
• Indermill, Chad
• Kisma, Nacima
• Frau, Eric
• Sahel, Jose-Alain
• Bodaghi, Bahram
• Jhanji, Vishal
• Errera, Marie-Helene

Titel

Mimickers of anterior uveitis, scleritis and misdiagnoses- tips and tricks for the cornea specialist

Ist Teil von

• Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection, 2024-04, Vol.14 (1), p.14-14, Article 14

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Background Anterior uveitis, inflammation of the anterior chamber and related structures, is a cohort of diseases that can present to almost any general or sub-specialty Ophthalmology practice. Its features classically involve anterior chamber cell and flare. Below the surface of these two signs exist a panoply of diagnoses. Body The purpose of this review is to provide a general framework for diagnoses of anterior uveitis that are often missed as well as non-uveitic pathologies that often mimic anterior uveitis. Diagnostic deviation in either direction can have vision-threatening and rarely life-threatening consequences for patients. Using a comprehensive literature review we have collected a broad spectrum of etiologies of anterior uveitis that are easily missed and non-uveitic pathologies that can masquerade as anterior uveitis. Conclusions We present a focused review on specific misdiagnosed anterior uveitis pathologies and some of the conditions that can masquerade as anterior uveitis and scleritis.