Management of Corneal Bee Sting Injuries.

Purpose: To review the management of keratitis after corneal bee stings and to report a case of deep stromal corneal infiltrate secondary to a retained bee stinger managed conservatively in a patient who presented three days after unsanitary manipulation of the stinger apparatus.

Methods: Case report and review of literature.

Results: A 57-year-old male beekeeper was evaluated for pain, blurry vision, and photosensitivity after a corneal bee sting.

Efficacy of surgical simulator training versus traditional wet-lab training on operating room performance of ophthalmology residents during the capsulorhexis in cataract surgery.

Purpose: To compare the operating room performance of ophthalmology residents trained by traditional wet-lab versus surgical simulation on the continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC) portion of cataract surgery.

Setting: Academic tertiary referral center.

Design: Prospective randomized study.

Metastatic choriocarcinoma to the choroid with concurrent optic nerve involvement: a case report and review of the literature.

Purpose: To describe a case of choroidal metastasis of choriocarcinoma, which presented as a rapidly progressive hemorrhagic retinal detachment with concurrent optic nerve involvement suggestive of inflammation or metastasis.

Method: This is a case report of a 43-year-old patient with a known history of choriocarcinoma metastases to both lungs who presented with 1 week of right eye pain and decreased vision. Dilated fundus examination was significant for a large, bullous, hemorrhagic retinal detachment, with the appearance of an underlying choroidal mass in the superonasal retina.

Peripheral ulcerative keratitis in sarcoidosis: a case report.

Purpose: To document a case of peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) that progressed to corneal perforation in the setting of recently diagnosed sarcoidosis.

Design: Observational case report.

Methods: A 42-year-old white woman presented with a 2-day history of tearing and decreased vision OD, secondary to PUK with corneal perforation.

Orbital decompression: current concepts.

The orbit in Graves disease undergoes expansion in soft tissue content as a result of the infiltration of orbital fat, extraocular muscles, and the lacrimal gland. Compression of the intraorbital contents leads to disorders of the lid-corneal interface, keratopathy, motility disturbances, exophthalmos, and optic neuropathy. Orbital decompression has traditionally been reserved for those patients with unremitting optic neuropathy.