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Infectious crystalline keratopathy occurring in an eye subsequent to glaucoma filtering surgery with postoperative
C Patitsas1, E J Rockwood, D M Meisler
1Department of Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195-5024.
Ophthalmic Surgery
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
We present a case of infectious crystalline keratopathy occurring after 5-fluorouracil filtering surgery. The patient had discrete, branching, white crystalline lesions in the anterior corneal stroma. Cultures grew Streptococcus viridans, and gram-positive cocci were demonstrated in corneal tissue biopsy specimens. Toxic and immunosuppressive properties of 5-fluorouracil may have participated in the pathogenesis of the infectious crystalline keratitis.