J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.
1982 Sep;23(3):521-525.
Histopathology of Keratic Precipitates
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Ophthalmology, National Veteran Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
- 2Department of Ophthalmology, Capital Armed Forces General Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Keratic precipitates are deposits of material on the posterior surface of the cornea, which is a relatively common phenomenon in a variety of circumstances both physiological and pathological. Inflammatory cells and uveal pigment in the aqueous show a strong tendency to adhere to one another and to the corneal endothelium, thus forming fine or large deposits. We observed the several kinds of keratic precipitates on the corneal endothelium by flat preoparation method. The character of the keratic precipitates observed in this study was composed of inflammatory cells, erythrocyte, pigment granules derived from the breakdown of red blood cells. In view of the accumulation of the pigment granules into the cytoplasm, it seemed that the endothelium might participate in phagocytosis or secondary changes in the various corneal disease.
