Keratoconus in a rhesus monkey.
A 15-year-old female rhesus monkey was observed to have bilaterally thinned and prominently curved corneas. Slit lamp observations, pachymetry, keratometry, and corneoscopy were consistent with a diagnosis of keratoconus, a relatively common corneal dystrophy in humans heretofore not described in a subhuman primate.
Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007640:Keratoconus / Q000662:veterinary*; D008251:Macaca; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008992:Monkey Diseases