Streaming conjunctiva

Bleeding from the conjunctiva.

The discovery of frank bleeding from the conjunctiva, apart from injury, is a relatively rare condition, but it is not infrequent to find a sanguinous discharge in cases of severe inflammation of the conjunctiva. The various causes of bleeding from the conjunctiva are vicarious menstruation, haemophilia, anaemia, jaundice, vascular tumours, bleeding from the lacrimal gland, regurgitation of blo...

Amyloidosis of the conjunctiva.

Case Reports Case 1.-A male farmer, aged 36 years, presented with thickening of the right upper eyelid, which was everted with difficulty to reveal a pea-sized nodule in the lateral part of the tarsal conjunctiva, which was irregularly thickened up to the fornices. Clinical signs of accompanying trachoma were present in both eyes. The nodule was excised and sent for microscopic examination. The...

Conjunctiva – Physiology and Disease

Rhinosporidiosis of the conjunctiva.

Examination.-The patient appeared to be in good general health. X-ray of the chest was normal. There was a discharge from the right ear due to a chronic otitis media. Culture of material from the ear showed Staphylococcus pyogenes (coagulase positive). Projecting from behind the middle of the margin of the left lower eyelid was a small, irregular, reddish tumour about the size of a pea (Fig. 1)...

Combined nevi of the conjunctiva.

PURPOSE To report the clinical and histologic features of combined nevi of the conjunctiva, a type of nevus that is not uncommon in the skin but has rarely been reported in the conjunctiva. METHODS Conjunctival nevi and melanomas from the files of the University of California, San Francisco, eye pathology laboratory were reviewed from 1984 to 1999 for the presence of features of both standard...