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By McGill University Health Centre
The MUHC-McGill University
Co-author(s): Sabrina Bergeron, P. Zoroquiain, E. Esposito, S. Corredor Casas, P. Logan, A. N. Odashiro, Miguel N. Burnier, Paulina García de Alba Graue, McGill University Health Center-McGill University Ocular Pathology & Translational Research Laboratory - Uploaded on May 18, 2020.
- Last modified by Caroline Bozell on May 19, 2020.
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- Moorens Ulcer
- Condition/keywords
- Mooren's ulcer, ulcerative keratitis
- Description
- A Mooren ulcer is a rapidly progressive ulcerative keratitis that first affects the periphery of the cornea before spreading circumferentially toward its center. Mooren ulcer is a diagnosis of exclusion: it can only be diagnosed after ruling out infectious and systemic causes. In this enucleation specimen, the periphery of the cornea is circumferentially ulcerated (arrow) and the cornea is thinning. There is also scarring of the corneoscleral junction.
