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.
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