| Abstract: | Investigation of the eyes of 388 Turkish patients suffering from leprosy revealed some rare and interesting ocular lesions, including Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome, acute diffuse plastic iridocyclitis, military leproma of the iris, an unique type of iris strophy that produces iris holes and hypopigment patches in the fundus and choroiditis leprosa´praecox. Histopathologic studies of the orbicularis oculi muscle in patients with lagophthalmos suggested that myositis rather than facial nerve paralysis was responsible for the clinical picture. Tonometric examination of 38 eyes showed abnormally low pressures, and tonographic studies of 49 eyes demonstrated that both aqueous production in leprosy patients.(AU).
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