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Kayser-Fleischer ring
Also known as:
Fleischer’s ring
Fleischer-Kayser ring
Fleischer-Strümpell ring
Associated persons:
Bruno Fleischer
Bernhard Kayser
Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von Strümpell
Description:
Ring of grey-green or brownish-pigmented ring, 1-3 mm broad, in the deep epithelial layers at the outer border of the cornea. Pathogonomic eye symptom due to copper deposition in Wilson’s disease (degeneratio hepatolenticularis).
Bibliography:
- B. Kayser:
Über einen Fall von angeborener grünlicher Verfärbung des Cornea.
Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, Stuttgart, 1902, 40(2): 22-25.
- B. Fleischer:
Zwei weitere Fälle von grünlicher Verfärbung der Kornea.
Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, Stuttgart, 1903, 41(1): 489-491.
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