TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Anterior Chamber
KW - Atropine
KW - Biopsy
KW - Dapsone
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Prednisone
KW - Punctures
KW - Rifampin
KW - Sclera
KW - Triamcinolone
KW - Uveitis, Anterior
AU - Michelson J B
AU - Roth A M
AU - Waring G O
AB - <p>A 34-year-old man with a three-month history of intraocular inflammation after ocular trauma with a fir branch, had an acute unilateral fulminant iridocyclitis. The iris had a thick, gray, cheesy membrane composed of nodular lepromata. The patient denied a history of Hansen's disease, despite the dermatologic and facial features that suggested the diagnosis. Anterior chamber paracentesis and scleral nodule biopsy demonstrated Mycobacterium lepra. The iridocyclitis resolved after treatment with dapsone, corticosteroids, and rifampin.</p>
BT - American journal of ophthalmology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/574361?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1979 Oct
DO - 10.1016/0002-9394(79)90663-9
IS - 4
J2 - Am. J. Ophthalmol.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A 34-year-old man with a three-month history of intraocular inflammation after ocular trauma with a fir branch, had an acute unilateral fulminant iridocyclitis. The iris had a thick, gray, cheesy membrane composed of nodular lepromata. The patient denied a history of Hansen's disease, despite the dermatologic and facial features that suggested the diagnosis. Anterior chamber paracentesis and scleral nodule biopsy demonstrated Mycobacterium lepra. The iridocyclitis resolved after treatment with dapsone, corticosteroids, and rifampin.</p>
PY - 1979
SP - 674
EP - 9
T2 - American journal of ophthalmology
TI - Lepromatous iridocyclitis diagnosed by anterior chamber paracentesis.
VL - 88
SN - 0002-9394
ER -