The patient was affected by a lepromatous leprosy and had a unilateral oedema of the posterior layers of the cornea with a conjonctival hyperhemia. The authors review the various aspects of corneal changes in leprosy: -- paralytic and non specific changes in trigeminal paralysis; -- direct and specific changes: opacification of corneal nerves, a vascular keratitis, corneal leproma, disorders of the vascularisation either by pannus or by interstitial vascularisation. The epidemiological problems are briefly considered.
BT - Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7321843?dopt=Abstract DA - 1981 Sep-Oct IS - 5 J2 - Med Trop (Mars) LA - fre N2 -The patient was affected by a lepromatous leprosy and had a unilateral oedema of the posterior layers of the cornea with a conjonctival hyperhemia. The authors review the various aspects of corneal changes in leprosy: -- paralytic and non specific changes in trigeminal paralysis; -- direct and specific changes: opacification of corneal nerves, a vascular keratitis, corneal leproma, disorders of the vascularisation either by pannus or by interstitial vascularisation. The epidemiological problems are briefly considered.
PY - 1981 SP - 515 EP - 8 T2 - Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial TI - [Corneal changes in leprosy (report of an autochtonous case) (author's transl)]. VL - 41 SN - 0025-682X ER -