Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 50, Issue 1 , Pages 61-80 , January 2005

Immunotactoid keratopathy: a clinicopathologic case report and a review of reports of corneal involvement in systemic paraproteinemias

  • Daniel C. Garibaldi, MD

      Affiliations

    • The Eye Pathology Laboratory
    • Department of Pathology, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    • ,
  • John Gottsch, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cornea Service, Wilmer Eye Institute
    • ,
  • Zenaida de la Cruz, MS

      Affiliations

    • The Eye Pathology Laboratory
    • Department of Pathology, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    • ,
  • Mark Haas, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    • ,
  • W. Richard Green, MD

      Affiliations

    • The Eye Pathology Laboratory
    • Department of Pathology, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint address: W. Richard Green, MD, Eye Pathology Laboratory, Maumenee Building Room 427, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-9248.

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 The authors reported no proprietary or commercial interest in any product mentioned or concept discussed in this article. This work was supported in part by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hiroyuki Nambu, MD, translated the Japanese articles.

PII: S0039-6257(04)00157-2

doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2004.10.002

Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 50, Issue 1 , Pages 61-80 , January 2005

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