Cornea
Macular corneal dystrophy
2:1310 visual cues1 clinical photo
In this image
Each number marks an object in the image and the finding it stands for.
- MacaroniMacular corneal dystrophy
- Two windowsBilateral corneal involvement
- Clouded glassDiffuse stromal haze
- Dense depositsIncreasingly confluent stromal deposits
- Cloud to frameOpacification extends to the limbus
- Reese's cupAutosomal recessive inheritance
- Chest of sixCHST6 mutation
- Blue gagGAG deposits; Alcian blue positive
- CarrotsAbnormal keratan sulfate synthesis / sulfation
- Clear replacementPK or DALK; Visually significant disease
- ReviewEvery marker, in order
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Clinical image credits
Openly licensed photographs used in this lesson, with what was changed.
Süleyman Okudan, Emine Tınkır Kayıtmazbatır, Ayşe Bozkurt Oflaz, Banu Bozkurt (2025). In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Findings in Corneal Stromal Dystrophies. Figure 1b.
Exact rectangular crop [240, 4, 473, 180] from the 715 × 186 publisher original (Figure 1b), preserving decoded RGB pixels. The authors' own arrows and markings are kept; no other changes, retouching, enhancement or upscaling.
