TREATMENT OF THE BACTERIAL CORNEAL ULCER

Abstract

We present to you the case of a 15-year-old patient, of Iaşi County, with a history of Intrasellary Bilateral Polylobed Giant Craniopharyngioma, Operated Iteratively (2011-2012) and at the left eye. Bacterial Corneal Ulcer, Post-trichiasis, therapeutically neglected. The biomicroscopic examination highlighted the fact that the corneal ulceration of the left eye had affected the central and inferior part of the cornea, presenting a descemetocele, so a surgery was performed and the loss of substance at cornea level was covered by a fragment of amniotic membrane.

Keywords

• corneal ulcer
• trichiasis
• amniotic membrane