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Necrotizing sclerokeratitis following uncomplicated cataract surgery
1Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital NHS Trust, England.
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
|August 1, 1998
Abstract
Purpose:
To report a case of surgically induced necrotising sclerokeratitis (SINS) with imminent uveal prolapse following uncomplicated cataract surgery.
Methods:
Case report.
Results:
The causative agent was found to be a subtarsal abscess and the condition responded to drainage of the localised infection and a course of topical antibiotics.
Conclusion:
This report represents the first account of postoperative scleral necrosis arising from a subconjunctival abscess, and illustrates the importance of identifying all aetiopathogenic factors in cases of postsurgical necrotizing scleritis.