EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor: William Charles Caccamise, Sr, MD, Retired Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

*Dr. Caccamise has very generously shared his images of patients taken while operating during the "eye season" in rural India as well as those from his private practice during the 1960's and 1970's. Many of his images are significant for their historical perspective and for techniques and conditions seen in settings in undeveloped areas.

Category: Cornea

Blindness from bilateral corneal lepromata

These lepers were confined to a camp in a remote mountain area of Nepal - " The Land of the Eye ". Both tuberculoid and lepromatous cases were evident. The patient in the foreground is blind from bilateral corneal lepromata - a complication of lepromatous leprosy.

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