Histopathology of Keratic Precipitates.

Choi, Jin Seo; Ko, Myung Kyoo

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1982;23(3):521-525.
Published online March 1, 1982.

Histopathology of Keratic Precipitates.

¹Department of Ophthalmology, National Veteran Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
²Department of Ophthalmology, Capital Armed Forces General Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

각막침착물의 조직병리학적 소견

고명규(Myung Kyu Ko),최진서(Jin Seo Choi)

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.