[Ocular manifestations in Stevens-Johnson syndrome].

Abstract

A patient woman, 45 years old, showed bilateral corneal ulcers, symblepharon, milkish-white scars, cicatricial entropion, trichiasis, lacrimal hyposecretion within a Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Histological examination of the conjunctiva shows a necrosis process of epithelium with phlyctenular cavities and abundant subepithelial inflammatory infiltrate. The affection etiopathogenesis is discussed.