Striate Melanokeratosis Following Trabeculectomy With 5-Fluorouracil

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Striate melanokeratosis is a condition in which pigment-bearing cells invade the central corneal epithelium in a whorllike pattern. It typically affects black patients with heavy limbal pigmentation and has been described in association with corneal epithelial injury (eg, infectious or exposure keratitis, cataract extraction, and penetrating keratoplasty).1We describe herein a patient in whom striate melanokeratosis occurred after trabeculectomy with postoperative administration of subconjunctival 5-fluorouracil. Report of a Case. —A 64-year-old black man with severe primary open angle glaucoma and a history of a failed filtering procedure in the right eye underwent an uncomplicated repeated trabeculectomy of this eye and received a 14-day course (14 injections of 5 mg each) of postoperative subconjunctival 5-fluorouracil. On the second postoperative day, a small epithelial defect was present temporally. This defect healed by the fourth postoperative day, although diffuse superficial punctate keratopathy persisted. Five weeks after surgery, a dense, whorl-like pattern

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