Table 1

Patients details

Disease (cases)Number (case/eye)Age (mean±SD)Gender (M:F)
D-S
 Skin biopsy: 16
 Lung biopsy: 1546/6167.0±8.66:40
 Clinical manifestation: 15
S-S45/6067.6±6.55:40
Tumour/PIOL
 DLBCL: 23
 T-LGL leukaemia: 227/3467.4±14.513:14
 ATL: 1
 NK: 1
Viral infection
 VZV: 4
 HSV-1: 2
 HSV-2: 218/2055.4±16.8*11:7
 CMV: 7
 HTLV-1: 3
Non-sarcoidosis
 Endophthalmitis: 10
 Behçet: 216/1666.8±9.59:7
 Toxocara: 2
 Toxoplasma: 2
Unknown39/4361.6±2.914:25
191/234*V: D-S, V: S-S (p<0.05)47:118
  • All patients underwent vitreous analysis.

  • ATL, adult T-cell lymphoma; CMV, cytomegalovirus; DLBCL, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; D-S, definitive sarcoidosis; HTLV-1, human T-cell leukemia virus; HSV, herpes simplex virus; NK, natural killer cell tumour; S-S, suspected sarcoidosis; PIOL, primary intraocular lymphoma; T-LGL, T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia; VZV, varicella zoster virus.