ClinicopathologicalAnalysisof39PatientswithCornealTumors

Jianhua Yan， Haijiang Qiu，Yongping Li

State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology， Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center， Sun Yat-sen University，Guangzhou 510060，China

Materials and methods

Results

The incidence of various corneal tumors

Table 1 General category of corneal tumors in 39 patients

Anatomic location of various kinds of corneal tumors

Table 2 Anatomic location of various corneal tumors

Figure 1 The slit-lamp photo of a patient with corneal nevus， showing the characteristic irregular patchy pigmentation that lied within the corneal epithelial layer．

The visual acuity of patients with various corneal tumors

Symptoms and signs of various corneal tumors

Figure 2 The typical clinical photo of squamous cell carcinoma of cornea．

Figure 3 Another patient with corneal squamous cell carcinoma， showing a pink， irregular， telangiectatic， corneal mass．

Figure 4 The same patient with corneal squamous cell carcinoma showed clear cornea with the visual acuity of 40／200 one week after lamilar keratoplasty．

Table 3 The best corrected visual acuity of various corneal tumors

Table 4 Symptoms and signs of various corneal tumors

Surgical management of various corneal tumors

Follow-up data

Table 5 Surgical approaches of various corneal tumors

Discussion