Table 2.
pathological findings of corneas with a clinical diagnosis of herpes simplex keratitis (%)
| Years | Number received | Multinucleated giant cells | Inflammatory cells | Vascularisation | Deep vascularisation | Ruptured Descemet’s membrane | Endothelial cell loss |
| 72–6 | 26 | 1 (4) | 23 (88) | 19 (73) | 14 (54) | 9 (35) | 16 (62) |
| 77–81 | 20 | 2 (10) | 20 (100) | 15 (75) | 10 (50) | 6 (30) | 15 (75) |
| 82–6 | 13 | 1 (8) | 11 (84) | 6 (46) | 3 (23) | 3 (23) | 12 (92) |
| 87–91 | 5 | 0 | 3 (60) | 2 (40) | 2 (40) | 0 | 2 (40) |
| 92–6 | 6 | 0 | 5 (83) | 2 (33) | 1 (17) | 0 | 4 (67) |
| 96–01 | 6 | 0 | 4 (66) | 1 (17) | 0 | 1 (17) | 5 (83) |
| Total | 76 | 4 (5) | 66 (87) | 45 (59) | 30 (39) | 19 (25) | 54 (71) |