PMC4876938_01
Corneal ulcer - paracentral, whitish dry-looking ulcer.
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Slit lamp biomicroscopy in the right eye revealed a paracentral 3x3 mm horizontally oval corneal ulcer at the 5-7 o'clock meridian inferiorly 2 mm away from the limbus with underlying stromal edema (Figure 1).
Healed corneal ulcer posttreatment.
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The patient was started on topical fortified amikacin (50 mg/mL) and tobramycin (14 mg/mL), and the symptoms resolved rapidly, with no presence of anterior chamber cells, and the ulcer healed in 3 weeks (Figure 2) with best-corrected visual acuity improving to 0.18 logMAR at 1 month posttreatment.