Abstract
A79-year-old man who ingested low-dose aspirin daily underwent phacoemulsification/aspiration and intraocular lens implantation in the left eye. The intraoperative course was uneventful. Nine days after the surgery, he presented sudden bleeding, and a conjunctival tumorous lesion was observed at the site of the scleral incision in the right eye. The lesion was excised and treated with diathermy. Histopathologic examination of the tumor showed a hematoma. Ophthalmologists should be aware that a subconjunctival hematoma may develop suddenly after an uneventful small-incision cataract surgery in a patient with chronic aspirin intake.
