Abstract
Authors report a rare cause of peripheral ulcerative keratitis. Mooren’s ulcer is a chronic, painful, relentless ulcerative peripheral keratitis that begins from periphery of cornea near limbus as narrow crescent corneal infiltrate which then progresses circumferentially and centrally. Mooren’s ulcer gets misdiagnosed as peripheral bacterial ulcer or another non-infective peripheral ulcerative keratitis.
Highlights
Mooren’s corneal ulcer was first described by Bowman in 1849 [1]
McKenzie described it as chronic serpiginous ulcer of cornea or ulcusrodens [2]
Authors here would like to report a rare cause of Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis – Mooren’s ulcer in a 34 year old male patient with no systemic diseases
Summary
Mooren’s corneal ulcer was first described by Bowman in 1849 [1]. McKenzie described it as chronic serpiginous ulcer of cornea or ulcusrodens [2]. Authors here would like to report a rare cause of Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis – Mooren’s ulcer in a 34 year old male patient with no systemic diseases. After 2months patient complained of severe pain in both eyes for which he came to our ophthalmology OPD. He gave no history for blunt trauma, chemical injury, skin rashes or vesicles over face or any other body part, or joint pains. Cornea showed a peripheral ulcer inferiorly from 5 o’clock to 9 o’clock It was centrally more progressive and crescentic in shape. Fig-1: Right eye on slit lamp with diffuse illumination showing ulcer in inferior margin of cornea. Fig-2: Right eye on slit lamp with parallelepiped illumination showing undermined ulcer with over hanging edge
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