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What is your approach to evaluation of underlying autoimmune disease in patients with bilateral scleromalacia?

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Ophthalmology · University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
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Scleromalacia perforans is an uncommon form of scleritis wherein there is scleral melt in an otherwise white/quiet appearing eye. The most common systemic association for scleromalacia perforans is with long standing rheumatoid arthritis. Other etiologies of scleritis should also be considered: syst...

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