A sore red eye with systemic involvement
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A sore red eye with systemic involvement.
A 20 year old man was referred to the eye clinic by his general practitioner with a four week history of a sore red left eye (fig 1). Treatment for conjunctivitis had not resulted in improvement, and he reported that his eye was increasingly painful. He had experienced repeated nose bleeds over the past three months, together with constant left sided nasal stuffiness. He had recently felt gener...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e1121