EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Prof of Ophthalmology-U of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Category: Cornea
Diagnosis: blindness from bilateral corneal lepromata

blindness from bilateral corneal lepromata

Image Comments:

These lepers were confined to a camp in a remote mountain area of Nepal - " The Land of the Eye ". Both tuberculoid and lepromatous cases were evident. The patient in the foreground is blind from bilateral corneal lepromata - a complication of lepromatous leprosy..

blindness from bilateral corneal lepromata


blindness from bilateral corneal lepromata


blindness from bilateral corneal lepromata


 

 

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