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. 2011 Feb 25;17:598–606.

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Hypothetical etiology of corneal perforation in cGVHD patients. CD68+ macrophages engulf and degrade the recipient’s degenerated epithelium as a foreign body, leading to the secretion of a large amount of proinflammatory cytokines, and the subsequent expression of MMP9 on macrophages or the corneal stroma and epithelium.