Abstract
Objective: Conduct a survey etiologic identification of gender, age, clinical diagnosis and the presence or absence of fungi related to clinical materials in histological specimens of cornea that were routinely sent to the Laboratory of Pathology, Clinical Hospital Samuel Libânio (HCSL). Methodology: We evaluated requests pathology Laboratory of Pathology HCSL since the year 2009, the beginning of corneal transplants in the hospital. The slides were stained with PAS also for assessing the presence of mold. Results: This study evaluated a total of 17,272 requests. Total applications, 20 were from corneal material, and 31.4% of them is from the year 2009, 32, 6% in 2010 and 35.4% of requests 2011. The button corneal evaluated, most patients were female, 14 (70%) six patients (30%) were male. The age of patients ranged from 18-72 years. The great majority of the clinical diagnosis was due to keratoconus (90%). There was no presence of fungal structures. Conclusion: The survey data are compatible with the data of Brazilian literature, with slight deviations, showing that keratoconus is the leading cause of corneal transplantation and revealing that there seems to be a predilection for females in our city.