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Foreign body mimicking a herpes simplex dendritic ulcer in the cornea
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  1. Damien Chia Ming Yeo
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Damien Chia Ming Yeo, cm.yeo{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-200143

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    A 49-year-old woman presented to the eye casualty department after referral from her general practitioner for a painful red eye since morning. She had a unilateral injected right eye with associated lid swelling. Visual acuity was reduced at 6/24 in the right eye.

    An initial slit lamp examination by the senior house officer picked up a dendritic-like lesion in the cornea just …

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