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: localized, nodular keratitis

Image Comments:

The photo shows a localized lesion of keratitis - a type that is most frequently related to systemic diseases or inflammatory diseases of the ocular adnexa. Such keratitis lesions may have their basis in an allergic response to the underlying systemic or adnexal disease. They are frequently recurrent. Treatment involves topical steroids usually combined with an antibiotic and appropriate treatment of the triggering systemic or adnexal disease..

 

 

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