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: bandshaped keratopathy

Image Comments:

In chronically inflamed eyes, calcium deposition is common beneath the corneal epithelium. The photo shows a classic example of bandshaped keratopathy in an eye whose vision potential has been completely destroyed by intraocular inflammation and keratitis with leukomatous scarring.

 

 

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