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Diagnosis of Allergic Conjunctivitis
Mitchell H. Friedlaender, MD;
Masao Okumoto, MA;
John Kelley, MS
Arch Ophthalmol. 1984;102(8):1198-1199.
Abstract
• Itching was cited as a major symptom of their ocular disease by 49 (80%) of the 61 patients with allergic conjunctivitis. Conjunctival scrapings from 51 patients (84%) demonstrated intact eosinophils or eosinophil granules. Eosinophil granules were a useful and recognizable cytologic feature of allergic conjunctivitis even in the absence of intact eosinophils. We believe that a history of itching and the presence of eosinophils or eosinophil granules in conjunctival scrapings are helpful in diagnosing allergic conjunctivitis.
Author Affiliations
From the Francis I. Proctor Foundation (Dr Friedlaender and Messrs Okumoto and Kelley) and the Department of Ophthalmology (Dr Friedlaender), University of California, San Francisco.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 28, 1984.
Reprint requests to the Francis I. Proctor Foundation, Room S-315, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 (Dr Friedlaender).
This investigation was supported in part by research grant EY-02502 from the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
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