Intracorneal hematoma in Mooren ulceration

PURPOSE: To report a case of intracorneal hematoma occurring in association with Mooren ulceration. METHOD: Case report. RESULTS: In an 81-year-old man with bilateral Mooren ulceration, a dense in tracorneal hemorrhage occurred in the right eye secondary to peripheral cor neal neovascularization and was followed by slow resolution over a 3-year p eriod. Following subsequent lamellar and penetrating keratoplasty, histopat hologic examination demonstrated the association between the stromal neovas cularization and the residual interlamellar hemorrhage, as well as phagocyt osis of residual hemosiderin by macrophages. CONCLUSION: Intracorneal hematoma with spontaneous resolution has been docu mented clinically and histopathologically in an eye with Mooren ulceration. (Am J Ophthalmol 2000;129:251-253. (C) Elsevier Science Inc. All rights re served.).