title: Solitary corneal myxoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the clinicopathologic findings of a myxoma that arose in the subepithelial region of the right cornea of a 53-year-old man 4 years after successful treatment of an infectious corneal ulcer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Histopathologic and histochemical evaluation of corneal tissue.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This rare lesion appears to have originated from corneal stromal fibroblasts that reacted to an inflammatory stimulus and produced excessive amounts of glycosaminoglycans (hyaluronic acid) rather than normal collagen.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Myxoma formation may require interruption of Bowman's layer and proximity of the scar to the epithelium.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Oftalmologia (INO), Lima, Peru.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Pérez-Grossmann
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Mesias
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Contreras
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Spencer
mesh_terms: D003315:Cornea / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D017234:Eye Evisceration; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery