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Lipid keratopathy and atheroma.
THE purpose of the preselnt paper is to point out certain similarities in fatty plaques of the cornea aiid of blood vessels, both in manl anid ini hypercholesteremic rab)bits, and to suggest a commoim pathogenesis. The following resume is based onl a (clinieopathologic study of approximately a dozen cases of lipid plaques ill the humiiani cornea, approximately the sanme number ill the rabbit co...
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Purpose. To report two unusual cases of idiopathic lipid keratopathy with symmetrical bilateral annular corneal lipid infiltration and describe confocal microscopy findings. Methods. Case reports. Results. We report two patients with bilateral peripheral deep stromal lipid deposits beginning in an arcuate pattern and progressing to a complete annular shape. Cholesterol crystals were observed in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0025-7974,1536-5964
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000017802