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: symblepharon at site of perforating ulcer of cornea

symblepharon at site of perforating ulcer of cornea

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Symblepharon is adhesion of the conjunctiva of the lid to the conjunctiva of the eyeball-including the surface of the cornea. Perforation of an ulcus serpens led to this symblepharon.

symblepharon at site of perforating ulcer of cornea


symblepharon at site of perforating ulcer of cornea


symblepharon at site of perforating ulcer of cornea


 

 

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