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CHORIORETINAL INFLAMMATORY DISEASES - Noninfectious Causes

Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown etiology.

Sarcoidosis frequently manifests initially as an ocular problem. It is a granulomatous panuveitis with retinal vasculitis, vascular sheathing, periphlebitis, vitreous snowballs or string of pearls, yellow-white retinal/choroidal granulomas, anterior chamber cells and flare, mutton fat keratic precipitates, Koeppe/Busacca iris nodules, and macular edema.

Anterior uveitis is the most common ocular manifestation of sarcoidosis, affecting 25% of patients with the disorder.

Systemic findings include hilar adenopathy, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary parenchymal involvement, erythema nodosum, subcutaneous nodules, and lymphadenopathy.

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown etiology.

Sarcoidosis frequently manifests initially as an ocular problem. It is a granulomatous panuveitis with retinal vasculitis, vascular sheathing, periphlebitis, vitreous snowballs or string of pearls, yellow-white retinal/choroidal granulomas, anterior chamber cells and flare, mutton fat keratic precipitates, Koeppe/Busacca iris nodules, and macular edema.

Anterior uveitis is the most common ocular manifestation of sarcoidosis, affecting 25% of patients with the disorder.

Systemic findings include hilar adenopathy, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary parenchymal involvement, erythema nodosum, subcutaneous nodules, and lymphadenopathy.

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