Patient e-Visit Use and Outcomes for Common Symptoms in an Integrated Health Care Delivery System.

This cohort study examines whether e-visits can adequately treat patients who have medical concerns or whether follow-up care is typically still needed within 72 hours or 7 days.

Intrapalpebral migration of a rigid gas-permeable contact lens resulting in an eyelid mass.

Purpose: To report a case of an eyelid mass that was found to be a rigid gas-permeable contact lens that had migrated into the intrapalpebral tissue and to provide a brief review of the literature on intrapalpebral migration of contact lenses.

Design: Interventional case report and review of the literature.

Methods: The case is described, and the literature is reviewed.

Epibulbar osseous choristoma: case report and review of the literature.

Epibulbar osseous choristoma is a choristomatous lesion of the conjunctiva containing bone. Originally called epibulbar osteoma, this lesion was first described by von Graefe in 1863. We discuss a case of a 4-year-old patient who presented with an epibulbar lesion consistent histopathologically with an epibulbar osseous choristoma, and report a review of the literature.

A comparison of rates of fibrovascular ingrowth in wrapped versus unwrapped hydroxyapatite spheres in a rabbit model.

Purpose: To compare the rate of fibrovascularization of wrapped versus unwrapped hydroxyapatite (HA) spheres in an animal model and to investigate how drilling small-diameter access holes at the time of implantation affects the rate of fibrovascular ingrowth in wrapped implants.

Methods: The right eyes of 20 New Zealand White rabbits were removed and a 12-mm HA sphere was implanted in each socket. The spheres were left bare in 8 of the animals.