Guttate or Nodular Keratitis
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by Groenoeuw, who found hyaline deposits. Another observer found sodium urate. Captain Whitmore, i.m.s., to whom I am indebted for examining scrapings, did not find urate of sodium, nor did he get any growth on blood serum. It would appear to be due to some general agent as both eyes are always affected and it is a " family disease." In neither case was Bowman's membrane raised over the patches and a clear periphery remains. There are no nebulse and the deposits are in the anterior layers of the substantia propria. From recorded cases it would seem that the disease is hereditary, but the parents have reached
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دوره 49 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016