LETTER
Letter to the Editor: Corneoscleral Melt 50 Years after Excision of Pterygium
Aki Kondo, Tatsuya Mimura*, Mari Goto, Yuko Kamei, Saito Yusuke, Hiroko Okuma, Masao Matsubara
Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East, Tokyo, Japan
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 47
Last Page: 50
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-11-47
DOI: 10.2174/1874364101711010047
Article History:
Received Date: 09/12/2016Revision Received Date: 06/02/2017
Acceptance Date: 06/02/2017
Electronic publication date: 31/03/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Purpose:
To report a case of corneoscleral melt that occurred 50 years after resection of pterygium with postoperative administration of mitomycin C (MMC).
Results:
A 93-year-old woman developed acute corneal perforation and scleral melt in her left eye at 50 years after pterygium surgery with postoperative topical MMC. She underwent limbal transplantation. The anterior chamber reformed postoperatively and her intraocular pressure was normal. At 12 months after transplantation, best-corrected visual acuity was 20/500 and the graft-host junction was well apposed.
Conclusion:
This case shows that corneoscleral melt can occur even 50 years after resection of pterygium combined with postoperative topical MMC.
Keywords: Corneal perforation, Mitomycin C, Pterygium, Cataract surgery, Penetrating keratoplasty, Scleral melt.
