Intracorneal hematoma in Mooren ulceration.
OBJECTIVE
To report a case of intracorneal hematoma occurring in association with Mooren ulceration.


METHODS
Case report.


RESULTS
In an 81-year-old man with bilateral Mooren ulceration, a dense intracorneal hemorrhage occurred in the right eye secondary to peripheral corneal neovascularization and was followed by slow resolution over a 3-year period. Following subsequent lamellar and penetrating keratoplasty, histopathologic examination demonstrated the association between the stromal neovascularization and the residual interlamellar hemorrhage, as well as phagocytosis of residual hemosiderin by macrophages.


CONCLUSIONS
Intracorneal hematoma with spontaneous resolution has been documented clinically and histopathologically in an eye with Mooren ulceration.
Wagoner
M D
MD
Anterior Segment Division, Department of Ophthalmology, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. wagonerm@horus.ophth.uiowa.edu
Islam
S I
SI
Riley
F
F
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016510:Corneal Neovascularization / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D003319:Corneal Stroma / Q000473:pathology*; D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005130:Eye Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D015948:Keratoplasty, Penetrating; D008297:Male; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous