Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on September 14, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(12):1576-1577; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel321
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Severe keratopathy in paediatric Cogan's syndrome
The Ocular Immunology Unit, Institute of Ophthalmobiology (IOBA), University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Correspondence to: Margarita Calonge, MD, IOBA, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Valladolid, Ramón y Cajal 7, E-47005, Valladolid, Spain. E-mail: calonge@ioba.med.uva.es
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SIR, A 9-yr-old girl was referred to our institution on September 1998 with idiopathic bilateral interstitial keratitis (IK). She had a 4-yr history of recurrent acute bilateral episodes of redness and photophobia, occasionally treated with topical steroids. At the time of her initial examination symptoms remained unchanged. Ocular examination showed a visual acuity (VA) of 20/60 both eyes (OU). Slit lamp examination revealed mild ciliary injection, white stromal opacities surrounding stromal centripetal neo-vascularization in both corneas, and visual axis remained partially clear (Fig.