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Keratoconus in a rhesus monkey
R L Peiffer1, T P Werblin, A S Patel
1Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Journal of Medical Primatology
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
A 15-year-old female rhesus monkey was observed to have bilaterally thinned and prominently curved corneas. Slit lamp observations, pachymetry, keratometry, and corneoscopy were consistent with a diagnosis of keratoconus, a relatively common corneal dystrophy in humans heretofore not described in a subhuman primate.