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: symblepharon/ pseudopterygium/ cicatricial pterygium

Image Comments:

In operating on this lesion, the eye surgeon must be prepared to handle perforation of the cornea during the operation.

symblepharon at site of perforated cornea.

 

 

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