title: Uveitis: report of a 10-year survey in Northern Finland.
abstract: In order to determine the distribution of etiologic and diagnostic categories of uveitis at the Oulu University Eye Hospital, 653 patients with uveitis treated during the years 1964-1974 were reviewed. Of the 653 patients, 321 were men and 332 women; 547 had anterior, 64 posterior and 42 generalzied uveitis; 524 unilateral and 129 bilateral; 570 acute and 83 chronic; and 446 single and 207 recurrent. The etiologic factors were distributed into rheumatoid (7.2%), streptococcal (4.1%), tuberculosis (3.7%), toxoplasmosis (3.3%), varicella-zoster (1.7%), sarcoidosis (1.4%), staphylococcal (1.1%), leptospirosis (0.6%), lymphatic leucemia (0.5%), herpes simplex (0.5%), yersinosis (0.1%) and undetermined cases (75.8%). There were no cases of syphilis. Most of the cases in this series were anterior and acute uveitis occurring mainly in the age group 20-59 years.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000150:complications; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000150:complications; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications; D013997:Time Factors; D014126:Toxoplasmosis, Ocular / Q000150:complications; D014392:Tuberculosis, Ocular / Q000150:complications; D014605:Uveitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications