title: [Changes of the conjunctival nervous fillets in diabetic patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our study suggested to reveal nervous fillets changes from conjunctiva structure in patients with diabetes.
  
  
  METHODS
  We removed bulbar conjunctiva during cataract surgery on diabetic and non-diabetic patients from the same age group. The conjunctiva fragments were fixed in Lillie's solution, then studied by using optical microscopy with usual and histochemical stainings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nervous fillets just like perinervium are better represented in younger diabetic patients without diabetic retinopathy or with early diabetic retinopathy and non-diabetic patients, too. In older patients and old diabetes, nervous fillets are much less in number with poor represented perinervium.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Significant changes of the conjunctiva nervous fillets were found in patients with long-term diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Clinica de Oftalmologie Craiova.
authors.forename: Florica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ignat
authors.forename: Mihaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niculescu
authors.forename: Rodica
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mănescu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001706:Biopsy; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000294:innervation* / Q000473:pathology*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000473:pathology*; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged