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[Keratitis].

P Dighiero
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A corneal inflammatory pathology could be a local process or could be an ocular manifestation of a multisystemic disease. For that reason, a correct diagnosis and an appropriate check-up should always be done. In rheumatoid arthritis, when ulcerative keratitis occurs, ocular morbidity is high, and more importantly, without appropriate systemic treatment, more than half of these patients die within a few years of onset of their disease.

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P Dighiero. 1999-11-15. [Keratitis].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626481/

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