Common Causes Of Hyphema

Eye Cancer

Eye cancers such as ocular melanoma can count hyphema among their symptoms. While melanoma usually afflicts the pigment-providing cells of the skin, it can also afflict the pigment of the eye, in which case it can lead to the tearing and bleeding of the anterior chamber, causing hyphema. Hyphema may be a serious condition by its own right, but the threat posed by eye cancer to the life and the vision of a patient is much greater. If the ocular cancer of the patient may be treated, then eyedrops, minimized eye activity, and the usual methods will treat hyphema. Radiation therapy is one option for treatment, and surgical removal of the tumor is another. However, if radiation therapy fails to kill the cancerous growth and if it's grown too far to be surgically removed, then an enucleation procedure (surgical removal of the cancerous eye) will become necessary.