[Clinical and epidemiological aspects in ocular tuberculosis]

150 new cases of ocular tuberculosis, representing 1% of total tuberculose cases, was diagnosticated during the last 10 years, in both Ophthalmological and Pneumophtisiological Clinics of Craiova. Ocular tuberculosis is the local manifestation of a general latent tuberculosis; the uveal diseases represent 46% of cases of ocular tuberculosis. 51 of 150 cases of ocular tuberculosis was corioretinal forms, which evaluated uni or bilateral, with one and multiple focares; in only one case we constated a coroidian tuberculom form.