(1) Phthisical eyes of 2 patients revealed clinically unsuspected, partially necrotic and partially vital malignant melanomas of the uvea and extensive intraocular ossification.
(2) A white retrolental membrane is seen initially, later the eyes usually become phthisic.
(3) An abnormally small, shrunken choroidal blush can be seen with microphthalmia, extreme degrees of hyperopia, and in the phthisical eye.
(4) Implementing a DFG with the authors' method allows improvement in the enophthalmos concomitant with a phthisical globe.
(5) Twenty four per cent of hypotonous eyes and 4% of eyes with normal or elevated IOP became phthisical.
(6) In 3 eyes vision deteriorated to no light perception; 2 of them became phthisical.
(7) Exenteration of the phthisical eye and orbital contents showed an extensive pleomorphic adenocarcinoma of the nonpigmented epithelium of the ciliary body with extraocular extension.
(8) The two brothers of this patient both had phthisical left eyes, and those eyes were examined histopathologically.
(9) With the exclusion of one phthisical eye in each group final mean intraocular pressure in the ACTSEB group was 15.1 mm Hg, with a mean of 0.43 medications, and 14.4 mm Hg, with a mean of 0.95 medications, in the Molteno group.
(10) The majority of eyes in which the vitrectomy fluid was replaced with saline solution became phthisical.
(11) The right eye became blind and phthisical, and it was enucleated at the age of 42 years.
(12) Another case who had panophthalmitis prior to surgery became phthisic.
(13) Thirty (70%) of 43 eyes, which had follow-up of at least two months, became phthisical.
(14) It is suggested that a prolonged phthisical state of the eye is one condition wherein the mosaic pattern may become permanent and that, as a secondary event, this is followed by irregular calcification of Bowman's layer which particularly involves the ridges projecting into the epithelium.
(15) The end-stage ossification resulted in "phthisic bone" formation which completely filled the vitreous cavity in a manner very similar to the human condition of phthisis bulbi.
(16) These results suggest that the majority of severely-injured eyes become phthisical, but do not require removal for pain.
(17) This eye ultimately became phthisical and required enucleation because of chronic pain.
(18) The authors describe a new application using dermis-fat grafting either primarily or secondarily in conjunction with evisceration of selected phthisical globes.
(19) Three eyes eventually required enucleation for the relief of pain; one stabilized, and two others became phthisical.
(20) A hugh episcleral traumatic conjunctival inclusion cyst enveloping almost the whole eye, which appeared in the left phthisical eye of a young woman who sustained a perforating ocular injury a few years before enucleation, is described.
Tuberculosis
Definition:
(n.) A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
(2) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
(3) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(4) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(5) Other organisms found together with N. miningitidis were H. influenzae (2 cases), S. dysgalactiae (1 case) and M. tuberculosis (1 case).
(6) The results of the examination of the tuberculosis cases detected during 7 years among the annually screened population are given.
(7) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
(8) Two years' experience of a simple serological test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis has been evaluated.
(9) A diagnosis of unilateral tuberculosis of the conjunctiva was established in a 75-year-old female patient eight years after the first manifestations of disease.
(10) Differential diagnosis must include renal tuberculosis and renal carcinoma.
(11) The qualification for carrying on the isonicotinic acid hydrazide monotherapy in the tuberculosis cutis luposa and verrucosa is proved on the basis of bacteriological, pathologo-anatomical and clinical peculiarities of these forms of tuberculosis of the skin.
(12) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
(13) The risk of "Gesunde Befundträger" (healthy carriers of pulmonary lesions) to develop pulmonary tuberculosis is compared with that of persons with X-ray shadows in the lung.
(14) These findings are used to interpret published data from the chronic experimental murine tuberculosis model and support the view that in the mouse, the efficacy of RIF in widely spaced intermittent chemotherapy is the result of its long half-life.
(15) In tuberculosis this effect has been indirectly attributed to the production of cord factor (alpha,alpha-trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate).
(16) Twenty-two patients with radiologically localised pulmonary tuberculosis underwent one or more broncho-alveolar lavages: 10 patients had a single lavage in the disease area, 11 had two lavages (1 in a healthy zone and 1 in the affected zone) and 1 patient had a triple lavage.
(17) We concluded that IS986 is an extremely suitable tool for the diagnosis and epidemiology of tuberculosis.
(18) The in vitro susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a new macrolide antibiotic RU-28965, alone and in combination with rifampicin or isoniazid, was studied by the agar dilution method.
(19) Tuberculosis of the cervix of the uterus is a rare form of genital tuberculosis.
(20) However, a review of 103 cases of tuberculosis presenting to a general hospital showed that 53% of the patients did not have fever when they first came to the outpatient clinic, and 10% did not have fever at any time while under observation.