Paul Lagan, Agarwal Manisha, Singh Shalini, Katre Prashant, Arora Aman Sumeet
Department of Vitreoretina Services, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, 5027, Kedarnath Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi, 110002, India.
Satguru Eye and Dental Hospital, Kapurthala, Punjab, India.
J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2019 Dec 23;9(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s12348-019-0192-9.
Scleritis is the severe painful inflammation of the sclera, which can be infectious or non-infectious. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the common causes of infectious scleritis. TB, though endemic in countries like India, is rare in pediatric age group. We report a case of a 9-year-old female child who presented with bilateral non-necrotizing anterior scleritis with unilateral posterior scleritis secondary to TB. To our knowledge, this is a rare presentation in pediatric age group, and she is the youngest of few cases of tuberculous posterior scleritis reported in literature.
巩膜炎是巩膜的严重疼痛性炎症,可分为感染性或非感染性。结核病(TB)是感染性巩膜炎的常见病因之一。尽管在印度等国家结核病呈地方性流行,但在儿童年龄组中较为罕见。我们报告一例9岁女童,她因结核病继发双侧非坏死性前巩膜炎伴单侧后巩膜炎。据我们所知,这在儿童年龄组中是一种罕见的表现,并且她是文献报道中少数结核性后巩膜炎病例中年龄最小的。