8年間経過を観察した膠様滴状角膜変性症の1例とその組織所見

Gelatinous Drop-Like Corneal Dystrophy:Case Report with Histopathological Findings

I．緒言

　膠様滴状角膜変性症は，わが国の文献には30数家系，約50例が報告されているが，外国においては，わずか1,2の報告があるにすぎない。著者は約8年間にわたつて，本疾患の1例を観察し，その経過中に1眼の眼球内容除去を行ない，組織学的に検索する機会を得たのでここに報告する。

Gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy is not a rare occurrence in Japan with no less than 30 reported cases. Familial incidence of recessi-ve type has been observed in some of them. A report of a case is presented by the author.

The patient, now a 68-year-old Japanese male, has had no family history in particular and no, other systemic diseases except for his eye con-dition. Initial eye symptoms, which developed towards the end of the third decade of life, con-sisted of blurring of vision, foreign body sen-sation, photophobia, lacrimation and redness in both eyes.