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Showing posts with label FILAMENTARY KERATITIS. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

FILAMENTARY KERATITIS

It is a type of superficial punctate keratitis, associated with formation of corneal epithelial filaments.

Pathogenesis
Corneal filaments which essentially consist of a tag of elongated epithelium are formed due to aberrant epithelial healing. Therefore, any condition that leads
to focal epithelial erosion may produce filamentary