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CONJUNCTIVAL SPHEROID DEGENERATION
Author(s) -
NORN MOGENS S.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1982.tb03035.x
Subject(s) - spheroid , degeneration (medical) , biopsy , cornea , conjunctiva , ophthalmology , medicine , pathology , chemistry , biochemistry , in vitro
After excision of part of the conjunctiva in 15 eyes (14 subjects) due to spheroid degeneration, the author noticed only fairly small, varying numbers of autofluorescent and colourless spheroids – after an observation period of 18 months, only 6% of autofluorescent and 13% of colourless bodies were observed compared to the number before biopsy. Around the biopsy site only a few spheroids were seen, with a non‐significant tendency to increase in number of the colourless bodies. In the cornea the band–shaped keratopathy had aggravated, with the formation of a small number of large, autofluorescent spheroids. A pinguecula recurred in a mild degree only in 3 out of 13 cases within 18 months.