Letter to the Editor: Corneoscleral Melt 50 Years after Excision of Pterygium

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 posto...

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Autores principales: Kondo, Aki, Mimura, Tatsuya, Goto, Mari, Kamei, Yuko, Yusuke, Saito, Okuma, Hiroko, Matsubara, Masao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567165
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364101711010047
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author Kondo, Aki
Mimura, Tatsuya
Goto, Mari
Kamei, Yuko
Yusuke, Saito
Okuma, Hiroko
Matsubara, Masao
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-54201742017-05-31 Letter to the Editor: Corneoscleral Melt 50 Years after Excision of Pterygium Kondo, Aki Mimura, Tatsuya Goto, Mari Kamei, Yuko Yusuke, Saito Okuma, Hiroko Matsubara, Masao Open Ophthalmol J Article 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. Bentham Open 2017-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5420174/ /pubmed/28567165 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364101711010047 Text en © 2017 Kondo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode 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.
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Letter to the Editor: Corneoscleral Melt 50 Years after Excision of Pterygium
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567165
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364101711010047
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