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Spontaneous corneal perforation in an eye with Peters’ anomaly

A premature female infant underwent her first ophthalmologic examination at the age of 4 weeks. The initial examination of the baby was requested for evaluation of a ‘white spot’ on the surface of her right eye. She had been hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit because of systemic abnorm...

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Autores principales: Kim, Moosang, Lee, Seung-Chan, Lee, Seung-Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23990702
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S49264
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description A premature female infant underwent her first ophthalmologic examination at the age of 4 weeks. The initial examination of the baby was requested for evaluation of a ‘white spot’ on the surface of her right eye. She had been hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit because of systemic abnormalities, such as a right clavicle fracture and microcephaly. Slit-lamp examination of the right eye showed a central corneal opacity, corneal thinning, and an iridocorneal adhesion. The lens and fundus of the right eye could not be observed. We observed no pathologic findings in the left eye. The baby’s parents were informed of the high risk for spontaneous corneal perforation without external pressure. At 42 days of age, an ophthalmologic examination of the infant was again requested for evaluation of ‘tears’ from her right eye 3 hours previously. Examination revealed corneal perforation, iris protrusion, and a fat anterior chamber. We performed emergent conjunctival flap surgery. Three months following surgery, the patient’s right eye was successfully preserved with no sign of inflammation or leakage.
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spelling pubmed-37487942013-08-29 Spontaneous corneal perforation in an eye with Peters’ anomaly Kim, Moosang Lee, Seung-Chan Lee, Seung-Jun Clin Ophthalmol Case Report A premature female infant underwent her first ophthalmologic examination at the age of 4 weeks. The initial examination of the baby was requested for evaluation of a ‘white spot’ on the surface of her right eye. She had been hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit because of systemic abnormalities, such as a right clavicle fracture and microcephaly. Slit-lamp examination of the right eye showed a central corneal opacity, corneal thinning, and an iridocorneal adhesion. The lens and fundus of the right eye could not be observed. We observed no pathologic findings in the left eye. The baby’s parents were informed of the high risk for spontaneous corneal perforation without external pressure. At 42 days of age, an ophthalmologic examination of the infant was again requested for evaluation of ‘tears’ from her right eye 3 hours previously. Examination revealed corneal perforation, iris protrusion, and a fat anterior chamber. We performed emergent conjunctival flap surgery. Three months following surgery, the patient’s right eye was successfully preserved with no sign of inflammation or leakage. Dove Medical Press 2013 2013-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3748794/ /pubmed/23990702 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S49264 Text en © 2013 Kim et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Ltd, provided the work is properly attributed.
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title_short Spontaneous corneal perforation in an eye with Peters’ anomaly
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23990702
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