[Clinical and epidemiological aspects in ocular tuberculosis].
150 new cases of ocular tuberculosis, representing 1% of total tuberculose cases, was diagnosticated during the last 10 years, in both Ophthalmological and Pneumophtisiological Clinics of Craiova. Ocular tuberculosis is the local manifestation of a general latent tuberculosis; the uveal diseases represent 46% of cases of ocular tuberculosis. 51 of 150 cases of ocular tuberculosis was corioretinal forms, which evaluated uni or bilateral, with one and multiple focares; in only one case we constated a coroidian tuberculom form.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002825:Chorioretinitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D010375:Pedigree; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014392:Tuberculosis, Ocular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014605:Uveitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology