Corneal tissue from five eyes of three children with active xerophthalmic keratopathy and stromai loss was studied histopathologically. Stromal dissolution was strikingiy focal, sometimes occurring beneath an Intact epithelium and often, though not always, a.-companied by extensive Inflammatory reaction and bacteria.
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