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Case Reports
. 2020 Nov;68(11):2493-2494.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1858_19.

Globe rupture following eye rubbing in a case of Terrien's marginal degeneration in a young male

Surbhi Khurana  1 , Parul Chawla Gupta  1 , Aman Kumar  1 , Jagat Ram  1
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Globe rupture following eye rubbing in a case of Terrien's marginal degeneration in a young male

Surbhi Khurana et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2020 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: Anterior segment OCT of Terrien's marginal degeneration; Terrien's marginal degeneration; open globe injury in Terrien's marginal degeneration.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(a) Slit lamp photograph OD showing repaired limbal perforation, superior aniridia and aphakia. (b) Slit lamp photograph OS (diffuse illumination) showing 360° peripheral corneal thinning, maximum in the superior cornea. (c) Slit illumination OS showing superior stromal thinning. (d) Superior stromal thinning with a clear zone separating the limbus and intact overlying epithelium. (e) Lipid deposition with superficial vascularization at the inferior limbus. (f) Extensive lipid deposition with superficial vascularization at nasal limbus OS
Figure 2
Figure 2
Four refractive maps of the left eye on Pentacam (Oculus GmBH, Germany) showing corneal astigmatism of 4.8 Diopters, peripheral corneal thinning (maximum at superior limbus) and 570 μm corneal thickness at apex
Figure 3
Figure 3
Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (Casia2, Tomey GmBH, Germany) of the left eye showing peripheral corneal thinning (superior and inferior)
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