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In 1967, Gass [7], described the clinical presentation and histopathology of an apparently non-neoplastic inflammatory pseudotumor of the uveal tract whose main characteristic was its diffuse thickening due to a lymphoplasmacytic infiltration which extended to the retrobulbar tissue and the optic nerve.
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Lombardi, A., Croxatto, J.O., Zambrano, A. (1990). Diffuse lymphoid infiltration of the uvea and periocular tissues. In: Sampaolesi, R. (eds) Ultrasonography in Ophthalmology 12. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0601-3_55
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