[Pathology of the eye in sarcoidosis]

Comprehensive neurologic and ophthalmologic examinations of 100 patients with morphologically verified sarcoidosis showed the most frequent involvement of optic nerves and less incident lesions of the eye proper and its appendages. Vision disorders were detected in 39.0 patients, chiasmal disorders in 12.0%. Fundus oculi abnormalities were found in 27.0% of patients. A specific feature of vision disorders in sarcoidosis was that almost half of the patients did not feel them, which may be explained by a predominantly chronic latent pattern of these disorders and by the fact that, despite manifest disorders of peripheral vision, central vision with correction remained normal for a longer time.