1. Prevalence, incidence and epidemiology of childhood uveitis
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Mira Siiskonen, Pasi Ohtonen, Roosa Pesälä, Nina Hautala, Iida Hirn, and Timo Hautala
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Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Population ,One Hundred Fifty ,Disease ,Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological ,Uveitis ,Age Distribution ,Risk Factors ,Epidemiology ,Prevalence ,medicine ,Humans ,Sex Distribution ,Child ,education ,Finland ,Retrospective Studies ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Incidence ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Infant ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Ophthalmology ,Child, Preschool ,Etiology ,Female ,business ,Cohort study - Abstract
PURPOSE To analyse the prevalence, incidence and aetiology of paediatric uveitis. METHODS A retrospective, population-based cohort study of Finnish children with uveitis in Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District in 2008-2017. The data included parameters for age, gender, age at diagnosis, laterality, chronicity, anatomical distribution of the disease, aetiology and systemic association. RESULTS One hundred fifty patients aged
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- 2020