Furrow Degeneration

Clinical Features

• Symptoms: usually asymptomatic
• Signs:
  • May occur as an idiopathic condition in elderly as a lucid area separating corneal arcus from the limbus.
  • Epithelium is intact
  • No vascularization
  • Corneal thinning may occur 
• May be associated with systemic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis nodosa or other collagen vascular diseases.

Management

• No treatment is required in idiopathic degenerations.
• Treatment of systemic diseases.