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Avellino corneal dystrophy: corneal stars

DOI: 10.37039/1982.8551.20250050

Corneal dystrophy is a hereditary non-inflammatory disorder in which substances accumulate in the cornea.

A 32-year-old woman presented for routine ophthalmic examination. The patient has myopia of −6.25 in both eyes with best corrected visual acuity at 8/10 bilaterally. On slit-lamp examination, she was found to have crumb-like and star opacities, grey-white deposits in the anterior corrneal stroma (-). Clear areas were present between the opacities. The peripheral cornea was clear. Her best corrected visual acuity was 8/10 bilaterally. A diagnosis of granular dystrophy type II was made.

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