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Case report of a ‘relatively’ new corneal disease
Author(s) -
Dirk Booysen,
Roland Höllhumer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
african vision and eye health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2413-3183
pISSN - 2410-1516
DOI - 10.4102/aveh.v79i1.543
Subject(s) - optometry , corneal disease , ophthalmology , disease , medicine , cornea , pathology
Peripheral hypertrophic sub-epithelial corneal degeneration was first described in 2003 and involves bilateral, symmetrical, peripheral, hypertrophic and sub-epithelial corneal opacification. The disease affects mostly young white women with light-coloured eyes and must be differentiated from corneal intraepithelial neoplasia, bullous keratopathy, climatic droplet keratopathy, corneal amyloidosis, corneal keloid, hereditary hypertrophic scarring, pseudo-pterygia and Salzmann’s nodular degeneration. This case report serves to highlight the clinical findings.

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