We present the clinical and light microscopic ophthalmological findings in a 60-year-old woman with bilateral, symmetrical, paracentral anterior synechia formation and healed, old, inactive interstitial keratitis, probably secondary to congenital syphilis.
The patient underwent ECCE and IOL implantation in the left eye and a triple procedure (corneal transplantation, ECCE and IOL) in the right eye. Gonioscopy, fluorescein angiography and light microscopy of a specimen from the triple procedure revealed a fibrovascular connection between the iris and cornea. The etiology of the funnel-shaped bilateral iridocorneal synechiae is discussed.
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