The anatomy of the peripheral cornea and its proximity to the vascular limbus makes it prone to a unique set of diseases, primarily immune-mediated ones. However, the limbus is still prone to infectious and degenerative diseases and thus distinguishing diseases may be difficult, so a diagnosis is often made by a process of elimination.
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