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Letter to the Editor
Panuveitis as a presenting feature of giant cell arteritis
  1. C V RAJESH,
  2. M COLE
  1. Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter EX1 2ED
  1. Dr Rajesh

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.84.3.337d

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    Editor,—It is unusual for bilateral panuveitis to be a presenting feature of giant cell arteritis. We present a patient diagnosed as having giant cell arteritis who had developed panuveitis some months previously for which the arteritis was probably responsible.

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