• corneal amyloidosis
• herpetic keratitis

Amyloid diseases are secondary protein structure diseases in which insoluble protein fibrils accumulate extracellularly. Twenty different types of fibrils have been described in human amyloidosis, each with a different clinical picture. Amyloidosis can be generalised, affecting multiple organ systems, or localised and can affect almost any organ of the body. In the eye amyloid is the material commonly seen in lattice corneal dystrophy. Cases of localised corneal amyloidosis have been reported in literature but are quite rare.^1–4 We report a case of localised corneal amyloidosis presenting as a large raised gelatinous vascularised lesion in a patient with long standing herpetic keratitis.