On the pathogenesis of parenchymal keratitis

Abstract

The pathogenesis of parenchymal keratitis is one of the most difficult and interesting problems of ophthalmology in connection with the pathology of syphilis. So, for a number of years, three possibilities of the pathogenesis of parenchymal keratitis have been discussed: 1) parenchymal inflammation of the cornea occurs due to the introduction of a syphilitic virus into the anterior chamber of the eye, 2) parenchymal inflammation of the cornea is the result of a nutritional disorder or a disease of the uvea and, above all, its vessels (Wagemann), or due to a syphilitic disease of the pericorneal vascular wreath (von Milch), 3) the introduction of a syphilitic virus into the cornea causes its specific inflammation.

Full Text

##article.viewOnOriginalSite##