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Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease after head trauma.

PURPOSE: To report two cases of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease after closed head trauma.

METHODS: Case report.

RESULTS: Two patients, one male and one female, developed headache, dysacusis, vertigo, tinnitus, and hair hypersensitivity shortly after a closed head trauma and, 10 and 18 days later, a bilateral uveitis with papillitis and exudative retinal detachment in one and a bilateral mild uveitis with macular exudative detachment in the other. The ocular lesions resolved with intravenous high-dose steroid therapy, but recurred after reduction of the dosages, requiring further steroid therapy. The course of the disease in both patients, with the appearance of fundus depigmentation and pigment clumping, and the occurrence of a concomitant ocular and auditory relapse in one, were typical of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease may appear after a closed head trauma suggesting that even an indirect trauma in melanocyte-containing tissue may induce an inflammatory response within the eye.

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