Urbach-Wiethe Syndrome and the Ophthalmologist: Review of the Literature and Introduction of the First Instance of Bilateral Uveitis

Patients suffering from Urbach-Wiethe syndrome (UWS), also known as lipoid proteinosis or hyalinosis cutis et mucosae, may have an ophthalmologist involved in the diagnosis and management of their disease. Along with moniliform blepharosis as a pathognomonic feature of the disease, an ophthalmologis...

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Main Authors: Seyed-Mojtaba Abtahi, Farzan Kianersi, Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, Seyed-Hossein Abtahi, Arash Zahed, Hamid-Reza Fesharaki, Zahra-Alsadat Abtahi, Shahzad Baradaran, Mehdi Mazloumi, Saeed Naghiabadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/281516