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: scar of healed corneal ulcer with calcification

Image Comments:

This corneal scar demonstrates how dystrophic calcification occurs when calcium is deposited in dead or dying tissue.

 

 

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