Epithelial implantation cyst of the cornea / by E. Treacher Collins.

  • Collins, E. Treacher (Edward Treacher), 1862-1937.
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: Epithelial implantation cyst of the cornea / by E. Treacher Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    perforating wounds are produced in this way. It is only natural to suppose that should a piece of epithehum instead of being carried into the anterior chamber or iris be lodged in the corneal wound, it would also grow and proliferate, giving rise to a cyst there. Since no epithe- lium exists normally in the parenchyma of the cornea, the most probable explanation of the formation of the cyst in the above casfe is, that it was produced by such an implantation of the surface epithelium, some of the cells afterwards undergoing mucoid degeneration m the same way as others which now line the cyst are doing, thus producing its fluid contents. ^ {December 10th, 1891.)