EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Cornea
Diagnosis: Ciliary staphyloma with descemetocele

Image Comments:

This type of pathology was seen day in and day out at the Kurji Holy Family Hospital Eye Clinic. Corneal perforation - occasionally traumatic but most frequently from deficient diet, poor hygiene, smallpox, and hypopyon ulcer from preventable diseases - was a major culprit.The photograph demonstrates a permanently blind eye with a huge ciliary staphyloma and with a descemetocele of the cornea. Proper public health measures with proper nutrition would play a major role in reducing suffering and blindness in India.

 

 

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