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: Systemic Disorders
Diagnosis: leprosy: patient is blind due to leprotic uveitis and keratitis

leprosy: patient is blind due to leprotic uveitis and keratitis

Image Comments:

See a previous Atlas photo of a leper for an example of the horrible effects of leprosy on the eye, viz. corneal leproma.

leprosy: patient is blind due to leprotic uveitis and keratitis


leper with deformed hands

leprosy: patient is blind due to leprotic uveitis and keratitis


leprosy: patient is blind due to leprotic uveitis and keratitis


 

 

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