@Article{Mesterhazy2019,
journal="Klinika Oczna / Acta Ophthalmologica Polonica",
issn="0023-2157",
volume="121",
number="3",
year="2019",
title="Ocular manifestation of granulomatosis with polyangiitis – a case report",
abstract="Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, formerly Wegener’s Granulomatosis) is a rare autoimmune multisystem disease of unknown etiology, which is characterized by granulomatous inflammation, tissue necrosis and vasculitidies of small and medium vessels. It has a predilection for the upper respiratory tract, lungs and kidneys, but can affect any organ. Ocular manifestation occurs in around 50% of patients. Appereance of exophthalmos, nasolacrimal duct obstruction, granulomas of eyelid, scleritis or marginal keratitis should lead to consider GPA. In an article a rare case of a 30-year-old man who developed ocular symptomps seven years after diagnosis of GPA, is presented.",
author="Mesterhazy, Marta
and Wierzbowska, Joanna
and Różycki, Radosław
and Rękas, Marek
and Tłustochowicz, Witold",
pages="147--150",
doi="10.5114/ko.2019.89731",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ko.2019.89731"
}