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Query: UMLS:C0022568 (keratitis)
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Mucous glycoproteins play an important role in maintaining the normal surface of the eye. Changes in the physical properties and chemical composition occur in disease with increased viscosity and a shift in the type of acid glycoprotein towards a predominance of sulphomucin causing some of the distinctive clinical features seen in dry eyes, superior limbic keratitis (SLK), vernal catarrh, and neuroparalytic keratitis.
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PMID:Mucus in the healthy and diseased eye. 27 69

Vernal ulcer is a rare entity not reported in Indian ophthalmic literature. 76 patients in the age group ranging from 3-43 years diagnosed as having vernal conjunctivitis had been referred from general ophthalmology clinic to cornea service of the same institute during 1988-89. Among them 60 were males and 16 were females. 55 of the 76 patients had corneal involvement in the form of vernal keratitis or vernal ulcer. 16 had typical vernal ulcers. vernal ulcer was found more in the palpebral type of vernal conjunctivitis and affects males more frequently. One patient had an inferior vernal ulcer. It also occurred in the bulbar type of spring catarrh.
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PMID:Vernal ulcer. 236 36