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Vernal keratoconjunctivitis in Down syndrome: a case report.

Maria Cristina ArtesaniMariacristina EspositoDiletta ValentiniAlberto VillaniAlessandro Giovanni FiocchiLuca Buzzonetti
Published in: BMC ophthalmology (2023)
So far, to our knowledge, this is the first description of VKC in a patient with DS. Finding an inflammatory-allergic disease such as VKC in DS is unusual but it must be taken into account because keratoconus, one of the most frequent eye pathologies in DS, can be secondary to an unrecognized VKC.
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