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"T1: often heterogeneous areas of increased signal, depending on the degree of calcification and haemorrhage"

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"T2: heterogeneous vitreous hypointense foci due to coarse calcifications"

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"FLAIR: usually increased signal"

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Acronyms

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"infection such as toxoplasmosis in TORCH infections"

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"In general, phthisis bulbi involves older to elderly patients, usually 65-85 years of age ⁷. Children and adolescents are only rarely affected, mainly due to ocular trauma, neoplasm and congenital abnormalities ⁷."

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"Typical clinical symptoms and signs include chronic ocular hypotony, a shrunken globe, pseudoenophthalmos, intraocular tissue fibrosis and scarring, visual loss, recurrent episodes of intraocular irritation, pain and swelling in and around the eye ^7,8."

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"Typical clinical symptoms and signs include chronic ocular hypotony, a shrunken globe, pseudoenophthalmos, intraocular tissue fibrosis and scarring, visual loss, recurrent episodes of intraocular irritation, pain and swelling in and around the eye ^7,8."

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