Idiopathic lipid corneal degeneration

Cornea. 1991 Mar;10(2):166-9. doi: 10.1097/00003226-199103000-00013.

Abstract

Two patients with no history of eye disease or systemic disorder exhibited bilateral corneal lipid annular infiltrates, together with deep stromal vascularization. Penetrating keratoplasty was performed on one eye of each patient, and one patient presented with an acute graft rejection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cornea / blood supply
  • Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary / complications
  • Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary / pathology*
  • Corneal Opacity / etiology
  • Graft Rejection
  • Humans
  • Keratoplasty, Penetrating
  • Lipidoses / complications
  • Lipidoses / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / pathology