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Intracorneal bacterial colonization in a crystalline pattern

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We report the case of a 78-year-old woman who developed an intrastromal bacterial colonization 22 months after penetrating keratoplasty. Slit-lamp examination revealed discrete, finely branched, fernlike stromal opacities, which were histopathologically found to be large intrastromal aggregates of gram-positive cocci with almost no inflammatory cell response.

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  1. Eye Pathology Laboratory, Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    M. Nanda & W. R. Green

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    H. Kaz Soong

  3. Muskegon, Michigan, USA

    M. P. Krenz

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Nanda, M., Soong, H.K., Krenz, M.P. et al. Intracorneal bacterial colonization in a crystalline pattern. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 224, 251–255 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02143065

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