• Fibrin glue
• corneal laceration
• partial thickness
• wound healing

We describe a novel technique on the use of fibrin glue to seal a longstanding partial thickness corneal laceration.

A 67-year-old lady was referred to the corneal service with an asymptomatic, partial thickness corneal laceration in the right eye (RE) that had failed to heal spontaneously over a 12-month period. She had no recollection of any history of trauma to that eye, but the laceration appeared clean-cut with well-defined edges, indicating that a sharp object may have caused it.

On examination, the best corrected visual acuities were 6/12 RE and 6/6 in her pseudophakic LE. Slit-lamp biomicroscopy of her RE showed a partial thickness corneal laceration 6 mm in length. It started close to the inferotemporal limbus and extended towards the central cornea without passing through the visual axis (figure 1). On high magnification, there were classic epithelial pearls on the surface of …