Mimickers of anterior uveitis, scleritis and misdiagnoses- tips and tricks for the cornea specialist

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2024年4月10日

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Sonny Caplash,
Manuel Paez-Escamilla,
Mark Westcott,
Kunal K. Dansingani,
Chad Indermill,
Nacima Kisma,
Eric Frau,
Jose-Alain Sahel,
Bahram Bodaghi,
Vishal Jhanji,
Marie-Helene Errera

摘要

Background

Anterior uveitis, inflammation of the anterior chamber and related structures, is a cohort of diseases that can present to almost any general or sub-specialty Ophthalmology practice. Its features classically involve anterior chamber cell and flare. Below the surface of these two signs exist a panoply of diagnoses.

Body

The purpose of this review is to provide a general framework for diagnoses of anterior uveitis that are often missed as well as non-uveitic pathologies that often mimic anterior uveitis. Diagnostic deviation in either direction can have vision-threatening and rarely life-threatening consequences for patients. Using a comprehensive literature review we have collected a broad spectrum of etiologies of anterior uveitis that are easily missed and non-uveitic pathologies that can masquerade as anterior uveitis.

Conclusions

We present a focused review on specific misdiagnosed anterior uveitis pathologies and some of the conditions that can masquerade as anterior uveitis and scleritis.