TB Research

Ocular tuberculosis: Clinicopathologic assortment and diagnostic challenges

Khadka Priyatam, Kharel Ranju

Journal of Clinical Research and Ophthalmology · 2019-06

Abstract

Ocular tuberculosis is an exigent clinical entity—lacking a distinct clinical presentation and attributing the diagnostic conundrum. Nevertheless, the early-precise diagnosis with implicated anti-tubercular therapy may be sight-saving; diagnostic delays often encountered due to protean clinical presentations, the impracticability of obtaining tissue (in most case), limitation on sample volume extraction, and of wanting a sensitive diagnostic test. This article revises the current scenario of ocular tuberculosis, its clinicopathologic arrays, and diagnostic challenges for clinical management; Furthermore, advocates for compiling all such positive findings of corroborative tests in a precise diagnosis.

MeSH terms

  • Diagnostic test
  • Tuberculosis
  • Medicine
  • Presentation (obstetrics)
  • Intensive care medicine
  • Ocular tuberculosis
  • Diagnostic accuracy
  • Sight
  • Clinical diagnosis
  • Pathology