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To report a case of acquired anterior staphyloma after trauma and its first surgical management. This is a case report of a 17-year-old man who had a history of trauma by insect on the right eye, without a previous history of eye conditions, and evolved with local pain and low visual acuity. The ophthalmological exam showed light perception visual acuity in right eye and 1,0 in left eye, anterior staphyloma and impossibility to blink.

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We describe an unusual case of acquired anterior staphyloma in a patient addicted to crack cocaine. At the beginning of his crack cocaine abuse, he noticed redness and irritation of his eyes. Over the next 4 months, the patient also noticed the onset of decreasing visual acuity in his right eye (OD).

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Imaging scleral expansion bands for presbyopia with optical coherence tomography.

J Cataract Refract Surg

December 2003

Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.

A 57-year-old woman was treated for mild presbyopia with implantation of scleral expansion bands (SEB). Although near vision was temporarily restored, the effect dissipated after 1 year. Slitlamp-adapted optical coherence tomography (OCT) at 1310 nm allowed precise cross-sectional visualization of the hyporeflective intrascleral segments.

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Purpose: This case report shows the long-term results after perforating corneo-scleroplasty in a rare case of superior pellucid marginal corneal degeneration with acute hydrops due to rupture of Descemet's membrane.

Patient: In the left cornea of a 20-year-old patient with peripheral stromal thinning from 9 to 3 o'clock a rupture in Descemet's membrane occurred followed by lamellar splitting of the mid-stromal region. Due to the decrease in visual acuity and pain from corneal edema a surgical treatment was performed consisting of a perforating/lamellar corneo-scleroplasty protecting the anterior chamber angle.

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Purpose: Block excision of anterior uveal tumors and cystic epithelial ingrowth to the anterior chamber is a curative treatment for morphological rehabilitation of the globe. This study quantified the course of the host corneal endothelium after this peripheral corneoscleral graft.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study examined 53 specular microscopic photographs of the central host cornea in 30 patients.

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