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HLA and Mooren's ulceration.
The British journal of ophthalmology - 1 Jan 2000
Taylor C J, Smith S I, Morgan C H, Stephenson S F, Key T, Srinivasan M, Cunningham E, Watson P G
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BACKGROUND: Mooren's ulcer is a progressive intractable destructive peripheral ulceration of the cornea, probably of autoimmune aetiology. The disease is rare in the northern hemisphere but is more common in southern and central Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Although rare, its predominance in certain racial groups and their second generation migrants worldwide indicates a genetic as well as a geographic...
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