A case of corneal mycosis
Comănescu, C.; Cârciumaru, M.; Constantin, C.
Oftalmologia 40(2): 162-165
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 1220-0875 PMID: 8717086 Document Number: 458595
A case of corneal ulcer in the right eye and iridocyclitis of the left eye, with mycotic ethiology in a 50 year woman who works in humid conditions with undefinite organic compounds. The diagnostic has been put through laboratory tests (direct frotee and culture). After the treatment with antimycotics the lesions have been epithelised, the patient leaving the hospital with good vision (VOD = 2/3, VOS = 1/3). After two years, in the picture of a sicca syndromme, the condition reappears in the left eye, the ulcer has perforated needing conjunctival covering.