Abstract
Aim: To evaluate the course of clinical picture of intraocular lymphoma, possibilities of examination of this disease and the association with general symptoms of the non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in patients with manifestations of uveitis. Patients and Methods: a retrospective study in 14 patients followed in the period of 1996-2001 in the Center for Diagnostics and Therapy of Uveitis, Ocular Clinic of General Faculty Hospital and 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague.
Conclusions: intraocular lymphoma should be considered as the eye and life-threatening disease. Cytological examination of intraocular fluids in patients with uveitis who do not respond to the therapy with steroids in the usual way may give more precision and shorten the establishment of diagnosis in this masquerade syndrome.
Early diagnosis and therapy may improve the prognosis of NHL