Ocular vicarious menstruation

J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 1988 Sep-Oct;25(5):254-5. doi: 10.3928/0191-3913-19880901-13.

Abstract

Vicarious menstruation represents cyclical bleeding in extragenital organs during a normal menstrual cycle. We present an unusual case of ocular vicarious menstruation (bloody tears) in a 17-year-old girl. The indications and treatment of this rare disorder are discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Contraceptives, Oral, Combined / therapeutic use
  • Eye Hemorrhage / complications*
  • Eye Hemorrhage / drug therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Menstruation Disturbances / complications*
  • Menstruation Disturbances / drug therapy
  • Mestranol / therapeutic use
  • Norethynodrel / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Contraceptives, Oral, Combined
  • Infecundin
  • Norethynodrel
  • Mestranol