Open AccessMonocular posterior scleritis presenting as acute conjunctivitis: A case report
Author(s) -
Yanzhen Li,
Xiuhong Qin,
JinChun Lu,
Yongping Wang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i20.5030
Subject(s) - medicine , scleritis , episcleritis , red eye , ophthalmology , fundus photography , optical coherence tomography , surgery , posterior segment of eyeball , visual acuity , uveitis , fluorescein angiography
Posterior scleritis is a rare inflammatory ocular disease, characterized by severe and painful inflammation of the sclera. It is often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed, due to its general and varying clinical presentation profile, which primarily involves pain and visual impairment but which can include eyelid edema, choroidal folds, serous retinal detachment, disc edema, hard exudates in fovea and subretinal mass. We report here a case of posterior scleritis, with symptoms of eye pain and red eye, initially misdiagnosed as acute conjunctivitis.