title: [Penetrating keratoplasty--indications with special reference to artificial lens keratopathy].
abstract: During the period from 1980 until the beginning of 1986, 1,219 corneal buttons removed in the course of penetrating keratoplasty were histologically examined. In 16.5% (201 cases) a re-keratoplasty was necessary. Indications for a primary corneal transplant (n = 1,018) were keratitis-induced corneal changes (35.0%), dystrophies (30.5%), surgical traumas (17.2%), nonsurgical traumas (11.4%), congenital corneal clouding (3.1%) and degenerations (2.8%). Over the six-and-a-half-year period the incidence of pseudophakic bullous keratopathy was 6.9%, with an increase from 1.6% in 1980 to 12.4% in 1986. Besides an unspecific endothelial cell atrophy, fibroblast-like cell structures, possible macrophages, were found in some specimens by histologic examination on corneal buttons as well as on explanted intraocular lenses.
authors.affiliation: Univ.-Augenklinik Hamburg.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Burk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Böhnke
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: von Domarus
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Abramo
mesh_terms: D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D003317:Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary / Q000601:surgery; D065306:Corneal Injuries; D003318:Corneal Opacity / Q000601:surgery; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation
vernacular_title: Die perforierende Keratoplastik--Indikationen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kunstlinsenkeratopathie.