Intraocular molluscum contagiosum after a corneoscleral laceration.

PURPOSE: To report molluscum contagiosum as a cause of severe posttraumatic intraocular inflammation.

METHODS

A 9-year-old girl developed severe intraocular inflammation in the right eye after a corneoscleral laceration. She underwent vitrectomy, and bacterial and fungal cultures of intraocular fluids were negative. A pedunculated white-tan mass removed from her right optic nerve head was sent for histologic evaluation.

RESULT: Histologic examination of the tissue showed stratified keratinizing squamous epithelium with intracytoplasmic inclusions consistent with molluscum contagiosum.

CONCLUSIONS

It is likely that infected epithelial cells were implanted at the time of injury. Vitrectomy as debridement was curative.