Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings

We report an interesting ocular finding of bilateral multiple coin-shaped epithelial lesions along with the confocal microscopy findings in a patient following an acute attack of erythema multiforme (EM) minor. A 30-year-old male presented with a history of watering and irritation in both eyes of th...

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Autores principales: Babu, Kalpana, Murthy, Vinay R, Akki, Veeresh P, Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C, Murthy, K R
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20029149
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.58475
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author Babu, Kalpana
Murthy, Vinay R
Akki, Veeresh P
Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
Murthy, K R
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Murthy, Vinay R
Akki, Veeresh P
Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
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description We report an interesting ocular finding of bilateral multiple coin-shaped epithelial lesions along with the confocal microscopy findings in a patient following an acute attack of erythema multiforme (EM) minor. A 30-year-old male presented with a history of watering and irritation in both eyes of three days duration. He was diagnosed to have EM minor and was on oral acyclovir. Slit-lamp examination revealed multiple coin-shaped epithelial lesions. Confocal microscopy showed a corresponding conglomerate of hyper-reflective epithelial lesions. The corneal lesions resolved over six weeks with oral steroids and acyclovir. An immunological mechanism is suspected.
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spelling pubmed-28413772010-03-24 Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings Babu, Kalpana Murthy, Vinay R Akki, Veeresh P Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C Murthy, K R Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report an interesting ocular finding of bilateral multiple coin-shaped epithelial lesions along with the confocal microscopy findings in a patient following an acute attack of erythema multiforme (EM) minor. A 30-year-old male presented with a history of watering and irritation in both eyes of three days duration. He was diagnosed to have EM minor and was on oral acyclovir. Slit-lamp examination revealed multiple coin-shaped epithelial lesions. Confocal microscopy showed a corresponding conglomerate of hyper-reflective epithelial lesions. The corneal lesions resolved over six weeks with oral steroids and acyclovir. An immunological mechanism is suspected. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2841377/ /pubmed/20029149 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.58475 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communications
Babu, Kalpana
Murthy, Vinay R
Akki, Veeresh P
Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
Murthy, K R
Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings
title Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings
title_full Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings
title_fullStr Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings
title_full_unstemmed Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings
title_short Coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings
title_sort coin-shaped epithelial lesions following an acute attack of erythema multiforme minor with confocal microscopy findings
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20029149
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.58475
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