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Glaucomas: Uveitic Glaucoma
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Glaucomas: Uveitic Glaucoma

Lesya Shuba and Young H Kwon
Pearls of Glaucoma Management, pp.371-378
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68240-0_48

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Abstract

Secondary glaucoma occurs in about 10% of patients with uveitis and management is often challenging [21, 27]. Identifying the etiology of inflammation is an important step in managing a patient who presents with intraocular inflammation and increased intraocular pressure (IOP). A number of conditions that cause ocular inflammation may lead to blindness or even death if misdiagnosed; these include infectious endophthalmitis (endogenous or exogenous), intraocular foreign body, and tumors (lymphoma, melanoma).
Ophthalmology Medicine & Public Health

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