Intra-ocular tuberculosis associated with a penetrating injury. A case report
Murray, R.I.; Daya, H.
South African Medical Journal 67(15): 603-604
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574 PMID: 3983743 Document Number: 248160
A case of histologically proven intra-ocular tuberculosis is described. The condition was preceded by penetrating trauma, and no evidence of systemic tuberculosis other than a positive Mantoux test was found. Numerous acid-fast bacilli were seen in pathological sections of the eye. We suspect that a tuberculosis bacillaemia from an undetected healed focus coincided with the trauma and thereby produced intra-ocular tuberculosis.