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Corneal ulcer-paracentral, whitish dry looking ulcer.
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Slit lamp biomicroscopy in the right eye revealed a paracentral 3 mm * 3 mm horizontally oval corneal ulcer from 5 to 7 o'clock meridian inferiorly 2 mm away from limbus with underlying stromal edema (Figure 1).
Healed corneal ulcer after treatment.
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Patient was started on topical fortified amikacin (50 mg/mL) and topical tobramycin (14 mg/mL) with rapid resolution of symptoms and healing of ulcer in 3 weeks (Figure 2) leaving behind a nebulomacular corneal opacity in the involved area with BCVA improving to 0.18 at 1 month after treatment.