Incidence of various ocular findings in children with chicken pox

ABSTRACT

Twenty five out of 67 children with chickenpox from the pediatric section had ocular complications. The most common ocular findings were eyelid affections in the form of rashes, vesicles or marginal erosions, acute conjunctivitis and lesions resembling phlyctenules on the bulbar conjunctiva and on the lid margins. Corneal changes in the form of punctate epithelial keratitis, subepithelial marginal infiltrates, peripheral corneal scarring, corneal vascularization and disciform stromal keratitis, were infrequent. Iridocyclitis was a rare ocular finding: