Posttraumatic recurrent corneal erosion, #2. Ultrastructural findings in epithelium and stroma.

Basement membrane deficiency, accompanied by alterations in basal epithelial cells, was shown in a case of posttraumatic recurrent corneal erosion (RCE) by Goldman et al. [1] and in other corneal disorders [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. We have previously [7] described a case of posttraumatic RCE which was treated successfully by surgical procedure. This report presents electron microscopic observations of the excised tissues which indicate significant changes in the corneal stroma as well as in its epithelium and basement membrane.