How do the typical presenting symptoms differ among anterior intermediate posterior uveitis?

Anatomic ClassificationPatient-Reported SymptomsExam Findings
AnteriorPain, redness, photophobia (chronic anterior uveitis may lack these)
Variable degree of visual disturbance
Ciliary flush with acute onset.
Chronic findings: cataract, synechiae, keratic precipitates, and band keratopathy
IntermediateBlurry vision, floaters, distortion of central vision
No pain or photophobia typically
Vitritis, with minimal involvement of anterior chamber
May symptomatically present unilaterally, but evidence of bilateral disease in 80% on exam
PosteriorBlurred vision, floaters, scotomata
No pain or photophobia typically
Evidence suggestive of inflammatory disease at choroid, retina, and/or retinal vessels by indirect ophthalmoscopy or fluorescein angiography
PanuveitisAny combination of aboveAny combination of abov
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