Primary calcareous degeneration of the cornea

Primary calcareous degeneration is a rare corneal disease. In the past 50 years, only four cases have been described. We present the case of a 26-year-old male patient with progressive calcium deposition in both eyes with negative laboratory parameters. For the first time, anterior segment optic coh...

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Autores principales: Bordin, Gustavo Longhi, Dornelles, Fabio, Martins, Juliana Amaral, Magalhaes, Otavio Azevedo
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29044078
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_858_16
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author Bordin, Gustavo Longhi
Dornelles, Fabio
Martins, Juliana Amaral
Magalhaes, Otavio Azevedo
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description Primary calcareous degeneration is a rare corneal disease. In the past 50 years, only four cases have been described. We present the case of a 26-year-old male patient with progressive calcium deposition in both eyes with negative laboratory parameters. For the first time, anterior segment optic coherence tomography was used to investigate and establish the proper treatment.
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spelling pubmed-56783062017-11-28 Primary calcareous degeneration of the cornea Bordin, Gustavo Longhi Dornelles, Fabio Martins, Juliana Amaral Magalhaes, Otavio Azevedo Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Primary calcareous degeneration is a rare corneal disease. In the past 50 years, only four cases have been described. We present the case of a 26-year-old male patient with progressive calcium deposition in both eyes with negative laboratory parameters. For the first time, anterior segment optic coherence tomography was used to investigate and establish the proper treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5678306/ /pubmed/29044078 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_858_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678306/
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