Subconjunctival steroid for pearls like tumour in the anterior chamber of the eye

Abstract EN

Introduction: Pearl like tumor in the anterior chamber of the eye is a not uncommon affection of children eyes, difficult to tract by topical and / or systemic steroid assuming that the condition is allergic in origin.

Aim: to assess the effect of sub-canjunctival steroid injection in these cases.

Patients and methods: It is a retrospective study for all patients aged between 10-18 years presenting with a unilateral grayish white nodule at the angle of the anterior chamber of the eye subconjunctival long acting steroid was given for all patients and the follow up was done for one year.

Results: 10 eyes of 10 patients were included in this research.

One child was a new case and 9 were recurrent cases.

All 10 then had varying degree of anterior ureitis.

After steroid injection the severity of iritic decreased in all patients.

The size of the lesion decreased to more than 50% after 2 months.

Conclusion: sub-conjunctival steroid injection for pearl like lesion in the anterior chamber of the eye is a safe and effective may of treating such lesion.