Scleritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Scleritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Holthouse (1893) presented an unusual case of ulceration of the conjunctiva and sclera in a patient who also suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and described the typical histology of the condition. Nevertheless, van der Hoeve (1934), in the first description of scleromalacia perforans, which occurred in three cases in association with a polyarthritis, regarded the condition as a primary degener...
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Sir William Read, Royal Ophthalmologist during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-17I4), who incidentally was unable to read or write (Guthrie, 1958), gave a choice description of the dangers of perforation in deep scleritis: 'For it is most certain that this horny membrane . . . by how much deeper the blister is hidden in the membrane . . . in danger to make an ulceration by breaking through the me...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.30.4.343