AIMS To assess the clinical pictures, possible pathogenesis, management, and therapy of patients with infectious scleritis associated with multifocal scleral abscesses following pterygium excision.

The term scleritis describes a chronic inflammation that involves the outermost coat and skeleton of the eye. Disease can be isolated to the eye, but in up to half of affected individuals it occurs in ...

The hallmark symptom of scleritis is pain; examination of the eye typically reveals ocular redness due to engorged scleral vessels Classification of scleritis into clinical subtypes is helpful to ...

Rituximab may be an effective therapeutic option in the management of severe necrotizing scleritis associated with AAV. A middle-aged man was diagnosed with necrotizing scleritis associated with ...

3 Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 Brigham & Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Preventative Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ...

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This report described a case of a 56-year-old female patient with a history of pterygium excision and use of mitomycin C eye drops during the postoperative period who developed necrotizing infectious ...

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