Primary Localized Amyloidosis of Bulbar Conjunctiva and Cornea.

Song, Beak Ran; Kim, Yung Ki; Yoo, Joong Ha; Chu, Young Chae

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1993;34(4):352-356.
Published online April 1, 1993.

Primary Localized Amyloidosis of Bulbar Conjunctiva and Cornea.

Beak Ran Song, Yung Ki Kim, Joong Ha Yoo, Young Chae Chu

구결막 및 각막에 침범한 일차성 국소성 아밀로이드증

송백란(Beak Ran Song),김융기(Yung Ki Kim),유중하(Joong Ha Yoo),주영채(Young Chae Chu)

Abstract

The major forms of amyloidosis affecting the eye are primary systemic and localized amyloidosis. Primary Amyloidosis localized to the conjuctiva is relatively rare, especially involved to bulbar conjunctiva and corn eo scleral limbus and is consiccered to be in the differential diagnosis of other conjunctival diseases. We diagnosed a amyloidosis in which the biopsy from the superior bulbar conjunctiva and superior cornea of the left eye of 68-year-old woman showed histopathologic findings of amyloidosis. There were no evidences of amyloid deposit except conJuntiva and cornea on physical and other systemic examination, including immunelectrophoresis, and cornea on physical and other systemic examination, including immunelectrophoresis, and no evidences of underlying disease that can cause amyloidosis. So we concluded that it was primary localized amyloidosis of bulbar conjunctiva and cotnea.

Key Words: Bulbar conjunctiva;Cornea;Primary localized amyloidosis