SARCOIDOSIS OF THE EYE*t
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A disease in which the lesions have a characteristic histological appearance consisting of epithelioid cell tubercles, as a rule clearly defined within the affected tissue, with only slight round cell infiltration in their vicinity, without central caseation, with or without Langhan's type giant cells, and with or without peculiar inclusion bodies within these cells, proceeding in the older lesions to conversion into hyaline fibrous tissue; these histological appearances must be present in all affected tissues. (Robb-Smith, 1952).
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