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| Year : 2023 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 608-610 |
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Isolated tubercular dacryoadenitis in a non-immunocompromised healthy adult
Ajax Jossy1, N Kaviyapriya1, Nirupama Kasturi1, J Sree Rekha2
1 Department of Ophthalmology, Jawaharlal Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India
2 Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India
Correspondence Address:
Nirupama Kasturi
Department of Ophthalmology, Jawaharlal Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry - 605 006
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_489_21
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A middle-aged woman presented with a slowly enlarging mass in the right superotemporal orbit and ptosis. The patient had an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and incisional biopsy showed granulomatous inflammation with Langhan's giant cells suggestive of a tubercular etiology. Tuberculin skin test was negative. The patient responded well to anti-tuberculous therapy. Tubercular dacryoadenitis is a rare presentation of a lacrimal gland mass.
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