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Case Reports
. 2020 Aug;55(4):e125-e129.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcjo.2020.03.003. Epub 2020 Apr 2.

Keratoconjunctivitis as the initial medical presentation of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Marvi Cheema  1 , Helya Aghazadeh  1 , Samir Nazarali  1 , Andrew Ting  1 , Jennifer Hodges  1 , Alexandra McFarlane  2 , Jamil N Kanji  3 , Nathan Zelyas  4 , Karim F Damji  1 , Carlos Solarte  5
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Keratoconjunctivitis as the initial medical presentation of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Marvi Cheema et al. Can J Ophthalmol. 2020 Aug.
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Fig. 1
Timeline depicting the patient's clinical course.
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Fig. 2
External photograph of the right eye after instillation of fluorescein taken under cobalt blue light demonstrating areas of fluorescein uptake consistent with the epithelial changes. Photograph was taken by the patient at her family doctor's office (March 2nd) before her first visit to the eye clinic; photograph provided by the patient (used with permission).
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Fig. 3
Schematic representation of the slit-lamp examination findings over progressive clinic visits; note the increase in the cornea lesions over time.
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Fig. 4
External photograph of the right eye taken by the patient before the second visit (March 5th) to the eye clinic demonstrating marked conjunctival injection and watery discharge. Photograph provided by the patient (used with permission).
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