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: follicles involving the limbus-each is a pre-cursor to a Herbert's pit

follicles involving the limbus-each is a pre-cursor to a Herbert's pit

Image Comments:

The pinhead-sized grayish lesions involving the limbus are precursors to the Herbert's pits that are very suggestive of trachoma. Other photographs will show fully-developed Herbert's pits.

follicles involving the limbus-each is a pre-cursor to a Herbert's pit


follicles involving the limbus-each is a pre-cursor to a Herbert's pit


follicles involving the limbus-each is a pre-cursor to a Herbert's pit


 

 

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