[Conjunctivitis lignosa -- an autoimmunity disease (author's transl)].
In a 33-year-old patient discrete conjunctivitides occured over a period of 3 years. Grey-white, fibrinous, spongy conjunctival swellings and white areas of cartilage-like consistency occured in relation with these. Microscopically these lesions showed parakeratotic cornified stratified epithelium, leukoplakias, chronic inflammation, round cell infiltrates, and vessel sprouts. Immunofluorescence showed, in the preparations incubated with antihuman compliment (C3), what could be described as characteristic for allergic vasculitis.
D000328:Adult; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003231:Conjunctivitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007637:Keratoconjunctivitis / Q000473:pathology
Die Conjunctivitis lignosa -- eine Autoimmunerkrankung?