[Posterior scleritis--a case report].

Authors present clinical manifestation and therapeutic possibilities in posterior scleritis, a disease, which may cause diagnostic dilemma. They also give an account of new examination methods which amend the diagnostic schema and safely confirm this diagnosis. In the article, a disease of a seventeen years old man is presented, in which posterior scleritis of unknown etiology was diagnosed. Following the systemic corticosteroid treatment the visual acuity of the affected eye improved, subjective signs disappeared, and the clinical manifestation returned to normal.