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SANFORD R. GIFFORD, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1942;27(2):231-241.

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A review of the literature reveals a certain confusion with regard to conditions which may be called ring ulcer of the cornea. Fuchs¹ in 1893 described what he called metastatic marginal ulcer. It occurred in old people with multiple fine punctate infiltrations in the superficial parenchyma near the limbus. "For a time," he stated, "they resemble marginal superficial punctate keratitis, but frequently break down to form marginal ulcers crescentic with the limbus. They tend to heal rapidly but recur." He also described the occasional confluence of several catarrhal ulcers to form an annular ulcer completely encircling the cornea and stated that deep penetration of such an ulcer may cause ectasia of the cornea. De Schweinitz² described a severe form of ring ulcer, seen in debilitated persons, in which the central part of the cornea is girdled and cut off from its nutrition, with perforation of the cornea and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Medical School.

Footnotes
Read at the Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Va., May 30, 1941.

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