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Arch Ophthalmol. 2003;121:1197-1200.

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Pyogenic granuloma is an exuberant proliferation of granulation tissue that typically develops after minor trauma or surgery. This well-known, common inflammatory entity occurs most often on the skin of the face and extremities.^1-2 Ocular pyogenic granulomas are usually found on the external surface of the eyelid or the palpebral conjunctiva.^1-2 They can also occur at the limbus or on the bulbar conjunctiva, simulating a pterygium or a squamous cell carcinoma.^3-4 Few have been reported on the cornea, probably because of its avascularity.^1-2,4-9 A constant clinical finding of these reported corneal lesions is either an epithelial defect in the presence of corneal neovascularization and ocular surface disease or chronic chemical and/or mechanical irritation. Abnormal corneal vessels are the source of the newly formed proliferating capillaries.

We report an unusual case of a pyogenic granuloma of the cornea in an infant secondary to mechanical ocular trauma induced by prosthetic fitting for microphthalmia. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Ekaterini C. Karatza, MD; Joseph H. Calhoun, MD; Ralph C. Eagle, Jr, MD
Philadelphia, Pa

Corresponding author and reprints: Joseph H. Calhoun, MD, Pediatric Ophthalmology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, 840 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19107.