Cyclophotocoagulation-induced sympathetic ophthalmia in a coats' disease patient supported by histopathology and immunohistochemistry
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Sympathetic Ophthalmia
Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a rare bilateral, diffuse granulomatous panuveitis that occurs following penetrating trauma or intraocular surgery to one eye, the exciting eye. The fellow non-traumatized sympathizing eye also shows similar inflammatory response usually with mutton-fat KPs suggesting involvement of autoimmune response [1]. Though the time from ocular injury to onset of SO was sai...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0301-4738
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_228_17