SCLEROMALACIA PERFORANS

Abstract

Van der Hoeve¹ in 1930 described before the Dutch Ophthalmological Society 2 cases of an ocular condition which he regarded as a clinical entity and designated scleromalacia perforans. In 1932 Rochat² described before the same society 2 similar cases under the designation scleritis necroticans. In 1934 van der Hoeve³ reported in somewhat more detail his own 2 cases and those of Rochat. Including these cases, we have been able to find in the literature references to only 14 cases of this ocular condition.⁴ The inclusion of 1 of these cases was doubtful. The patient was aged only 34 ; there was no arthritis, and the only lesion consisted, even when the patient was first observed, of a filtering cicatrix at the corneal limbus.⁵ Three cases, mentioned in the discussion on Rochat's communication, were described simply as being closely similar to his cases, with the exception