Diffuse epithelial ingrowth after perforating keratoplasty.

Diffuse epithelial ingrowth was observed in 2 patients after perforating keratoplasty. Both cases involved a corneal graft after perforating injury with aphakia. In the first patient, the epithelial invasion was probably stimulated by a spatula synecholysis. In this case, the diagnosis was only made by histological investigation after enucleation. In the second patient the epithelial ingrowth was observed 8 months after keratoplasty. The clinical diagnosis was made on the basis of the typical slitlamp findings. In this case, the epithelial invasion led to hypotension with high resistance of outflow measured by electrotonography. In a very close chronological relation to the probable fall of chamber fluid secretion, development of a band-shaped keratopathy was observed.