[Light- and electron-microscopic examinations of deep keratomycosis (aspergillosis) (author's transl)].

Light-microscopic and ultrastructural examinations of a corneal button with deep keratomycosis revealed that keratocytes are partly injured and partly of normal structure. In the cellular reaction, macrophages especially, are found that encircle hyphae with pseudopodia or cover the apical end of the fungi. In many sections, the fungal walls are very resistant to phygocytosis, but, on the contrary, the cytoplasm is damaged earlier and more severely. The cellular reaction in the anterior chamber is massive and intensive with predominance of macrophages.