title: A rare case of bilateral congenital corneal malformations.
abstract: We report the case of a now 6-year-old girl who was born with different abnormalities in each eye. The right eye showed a total sclerocornea. At the age of 4 years we performed a perforating keratoplasty. On the left eye a large staphyloma developed. The staphyloma was excised and a cornea with a scleral rim was fixed in. This transplant became cloudy under a conjunctival flap and blepharoplasty. In addition to the clinical follow-up, histological and immun-histochemical examinations of the corneas were carried out.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Klinikum der RWTH Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Redbrake
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salla
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reim
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003315:Cornea / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003318:Corneal Opacity / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005143:Eyelids / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015948:Keratoplasty, Penetrating; D015422:Scleral Diseases / Q000151:congenital; D013524:Surgical Flaps