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Amyloidosis of the CorneaReport of a Case Without Conjunctival Involvement
WALTER R. STAFFORD, MD;
BEN S. FINE, MD
Arch Ophthalmol. 1966;75(1):53-56.
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The ophthalmic manifestations and a review of the conjunctival and lid lesions on file in the Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology have been presented in the preceding article.1 The purpose of this paper is to present a unique case of amyloid deposition in the corneal epithelium without fibrovascular invasion of the cornea or concurrent amyloid involvement of the surrounding conjunctival tissues. To the best of our knowledge a similar case has not been reported previously.
Report of Case
Clinical History.
—A white girl was born six weeks prematurely with a birth weight of 3 lb 10 oz (1,645 kg). She was kept in an incubator for four days under an increased tension of atmospheric oxygen. A diagnosis of bilateral retrolental fibroplasia was made at age 3 months, and she became blind in both eyes. Bilateral cataracts and very shallow anterior chambers developed. At about 10 years of age she began
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Author Affiliations
Washington, DC
From the Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20305.; Work was done during tenure of a Special Fellowship in Ophthalmic Pathology of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, NIH, at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Dr. Stafford). Present address: Department of Ophthalmology, St. Louis University Hospitals, St. Louis, Mo. Ophthalmic Pathology Branch, AFIP (Dr. Fine).
Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 10, 1965.
Reprint requests to Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Washington, DC 20305.
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