DLK cause close to hand
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Dr Hoffman and colleagues were frustrated and perplexed after a persistent epidemic of diffuse lamellar keratitis at the Oregon Eye Institute, Eugene, Oregon.The incidence of DLK during the epidemic ranged from 16% to 85% per surgical day, he told a session of the XXII Congress of the ESCRS. Previous outbreaks of DLK have been attributed by other investigators to everything from bacterial endotoxins lurking in sterilisers to epithelial defects, metallic debris and betadine
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