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Review
. 2000 Jan;84(1):110-6.
doi: 10.1136/bjo.84.1.110.

Ocular involvement in sarcoidosis

A Rothova  1
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Review

Ocular involvement in sarcoidosis

A Rothova. Br J Ophthalmol. 2000 Jan.
No abstract available

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Anterior segment granulomas in sarcoidosis. (A) Granulomatous iridocyclitis in sarcoidosis with Koeppe nodules visible on the pupillary border. (B) Multiple, extremely large granulomas in anterior chamber in a black patient with biopsy proved sarcoidosis. Keratic precipitates located on the lower part of corneal endothelium are also visible.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Retinal vasculitis in sarcoidosis. (A) Retinal vasculitis in a 22 year old white male patient with sarcoidosis visible as focal perivascular inflammatory infiltrates. (B) Fluorescein angiogram of this patient exhibits focal perivenous leakage in the affected areas. (C) Retinal vasculitis in a 44 year old white male patient with sarcoidosis. Late phase fluorescein angiogram. Note the multiple segmental perivascular leakage areas. (D) Sheathing of the peripheral retinal vessels surrounded by haemorrhages in a 24 year old black female patient with sarcoidosis. The retinal abnormalities normalised after periocular corticosteroid administration.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Multiple chorioretinal punched out lesions in the peripheral fundus in a 64 year old white female patient with sarcoidosis (peripheral multifocal chorioretinitis). Note the confluence of the lesions in the far periphery.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Posterior segment granulomas in sarcoidosis. (A) Peripheral choroidal nodule surrounded by several small chorioretinal lesions in a 26 year old white male patient with sarcoidosis. (B) Whitish chorioretinal nodules nasal to optic nerve head in a 55 year old white female patient with sarcoidosis. (C) Scarification of a large choroidal granuloma in 30 year old white male patient with sarcoidosis located in inferior part of the fundus and associated with secondary changes of retinal pigment epithelium.
Figure 5
Figure 5
Peripheral area of capillary non-perfusion with impeding development of the neovascular membrane in ocular sarcoidosis. Late phase fluorescein angiogram.
Figure 6
Figure 6
Optic disc and peripapillary atrophy with abnormal vessels (optociliary shunts) of the optic nerve head in a patient with juvenile onset sarcoidosis. Focal chorioretinal lesions in different stages of inflammatory activity were visible throughout the fundus and in the peripapillary area.
Figure 7
Figure 7
Arterial macroaneurysms in a patient with sarcoidosis. Late phase fluorescein angiogram.
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