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Table 1 Diagnostic criteria [1, 2]

From: Prevalence and associated factors for climatic droplet keratopathy in Kazakhs adults: a cross-sectional study in Tacheng, Xinjiang, China

Grade

Status

Findings

0

Normal

No abnormal changes under the slit lamp

1

Slightly abnormal

Under the slit lamp, tiny sub-epithelial deposits can only be seen on the nasal or temporal limbus

2

Abnormal

Under the slit lamp, there are more obvious drop-like deposits, involving more than 2/3 of the cornea, and the cornea below the horizontal line of the pupil can be changed in a mist.

3

Significantly abnormal

The sediment is fused into a sheet, covering the cornea in a strip-shaped lateral direction, sometimes it can also be raised above the normal corneal epithelium, and the corneal surface can be seen with amber nodules