Atypical mycobacterial keratitis

Atypical contact lens-related keratitis

Atypical mycobacterial infection mimicking metastatic cholangiocarcinoma

Mycobacterial infections are rare in developed countries. Isolated involvement of the liver and biliary tree by mycobacterial infection is extremely rare. We report a case of a 45-year-old Caucasian female presenting with obstructive jaundice with a common bile duct stricture and multiple hypodense liver lesions raising suspicion of a metastatic cholangiocarcinoma. Percutaneous core biopsies of...

Atypical mycobacterial wound infection after blepharoplasty.

Figure I Bilateral blepharoplasty wounds showing induration, breakdown, and crusting. asE B p?g ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~........e:. Case report A 72-year-old man underwent bilateral blepharoplasty for dermatochalasis. Four weeks later he noted increasing redness and swelling in the healed brow incisions. These swellings bled intermittently, scabbed over, and became progressively more prominent (Fig ...

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial keratitis: a study of 22 cases.

AIM To investigate causes and clinical findings of non-tuberculous mycobacterial keratitis, and to study its response to topical antibiotic therapy and surgical extirpative keratectomy. METHOD A single centre, retrospective review of 22 patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial keratitis seen in a 3 year period. Laboratory diagnoses were established with Ziehl-Nielsen acid fast staining and...

Clinicopathologic study of satellite lesions in nontuberculous mycobacterial keratitis.

Multifocal stromal infiltrates or "satellite lesions" have been considered a characteristic feature of fungal keratitis. We examined two patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial keratitis who clinically presented with satellite lesions. The keratitis consisted of multifocal stromal infiltrates with indistinct white and fluffy margins. Both patients received topical fortified amikacin therapy ...