Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Int J Ophthalmol, 2011;4(4):439-42.
PMID: 22553696 DOI: 10.3980/j.issn.2222-3959.2011.04.22

Abstract

A rare case of bilateral scleromalacia perforans, bilateral peripheral corneal thinning (contact lens cornea) and unilateral orbital inflammatory disease in a 50 year old female patient with an indolent form Wegener's granulomatosis(WG) involving lungs and sinuses is reported. The patient survived for 12 years after the initial diagnosis of systemic disease. There was perforation of left globe following trauma and no perforation of the right globe till the last follow up of the patient.

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