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Postkeratoplasty crystalline deposits mimicking bacterial infectious crystalline keratopathy
R W Weisenthal1, J H Krachmer, R Folberg
1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
American Journal of Ophthalmology
|January 15, 1988
Abstract:
Three corneal transplant patients developed white, crystalline, anterior stromal lesions in their grafts while receiving long-term topical corticosteroid therapy. A presumed diagnosis of infectious crystalline keratopathy was made in each case. However, histologic examination of the lesions failed to show gram-positive cocci. A fungal infiltrate was present in the first two patients, and calcium deposits produced the lesion in the third patient.