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Emanuil Parunakian1, Veronika Yehezkeli2, Monica Khitri3

  • 1David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

Journal of AAPOS : the Official Publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
|June 12, 2026
PubMed
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Syphilitic scleritis, a rare eye inflammation, can occur after strabismus surgery. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of latent syphilis led to significant improvement in a patient with this unusual complication.

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