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  • Title: Specular microscopic and histologic observations in nonguttate corneal endothelial degeneration.
    Author: Abbott RL, Fine BS, Webster RG, Paglen PG, Spencer WH.
    Journal: Ophthalmology; 1981 Aug; 88(8):788-800. PubMed ID: 6976545.
    Abstract:
    Six phakic patients with unilateral corneal edema and clinically normal-appearing fellow eyes were examined with specular microscopy and found to have endothelial pleomorphism and reduced cell counts in the nonedematous cornea. None of these patients had any previous eye disease, trauma, inflammation, or surgery. Clinically unrecognized endothelial disease was proposed as a cause for the unilateral corneal edema and was verified by light and electron microscopic studies in five patients. These pathologic findings vary somewhat from those found in Fuchs' dystrophy and may represent either a variant or a form of endothelial cell degeneration of as yet undetermined etiology. Our studies suggest that this condition is not detectable in the nonedematous cornea by standard high magnification biomicroscopy and requires the use of the clinical specular microscope to confirm the diagnosis in suspected cases.
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