title: [Two cases of posterior keratoconus].
abstract: We studied 3 eyes from 2 patients with posterior keratoconus. One patient (a 17-year-old female) had posterior keratoconus bilaterally and the other (a 8-year-old male) had posterior keratoconus in one eye and Peters' anomaly in the contralateral eye. Slit-lamp biomicroscopy disclosed localized thinning with stromal haze underlying the endothelium in the central cornea. Photokeratoscopy revealed no abnormalities suggestive of anterior keratoconus. Wide-field specular microscopy showed the endothelial cells with normal cell density (approximately 3500 cells/mm2) and morphology in both the peripheral and central corneas (adjacent to the hazy areas).
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suwa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004728:Endothelium, Corneal / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007640:Keratoconus / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male