National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Tuberculosis is a systemic disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis killing up to 3 million people in the world every year. Nigeria is ranked as number ten among twenty-two high burden countries in the world. Ocular involvement is an extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis which has become more common with the advent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We hereby report a case of a 65 year old woman in the middle socioeconomic class who presented to the eye clinic with a 3 week history of progressive protrusion of the left eye. Pain and loss of vision in the same eye were later findings in course of the disease. Orbital tuberculosis is rare even in endemic areas leading often to miss diagnosis. Tuberculosis should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of unilateral orbital mass particularly in endemic countries.
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