title: Postkeratoplasty crystalline deposits mimicking bacterial infectious crystalline keratopathy.
abstract: Three corneal transplant patients developed white, crystalline, anterior stromal lesions in their grafts while receiving long-term topical corticosteroid therapy. A presumed diagnosis of infectious crystalline keratopathy was made in each case. However, histologic examination of the lesions failed to show gram-positive cocci. A fungal infiltrate was present in the first two patients, and calcium deposits produced the lesion in the third patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Weisenthal
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Krachmer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Folberg
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Whitson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D003318:Corneal Opacity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D003319:Corneal Stroma / Q000473:pathology; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D003460:Crystallization; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009181:Mycoses / Q000175:diagnosis; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D011239:Prednisolone