Abstract
The increase in tuberculous infection frequency in certain populations1 may be responsible for some clinical forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that were thought to have disappeared. We present a 3-year-old girl with tuberculous indocyclitis, which was the first clinical manifestation of a tuberculous infection and responsible for the loss of an eye.
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