Keratoconus in a rhesus monkey |
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| Authors: | R L Peiffer T P Werblin A S Patel |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
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| Abstract: | A 15-year-old female rhesus monkey was observed to have bilaterally thinned and prominently curved corneas. Slit lamp observations, pachymetry, keratometry, and corneoscopy were consistent with a diagnosis of keratoconus, a relatively common corneal dystrophy in humans heretofore not described in a subhuman primate. |
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| Keywords: | Cornea |
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