Preventing Postoperative Atypical Mycobacterial Infection.

Purpose: To report a recent outbreak of atypical mycobacterial infection following upper eyelid surgery and the results of a prevention protocol that was successfully instituted to dramatically reduce the infection rate.

Methods: This is a multicenter retrospective nonrandomized comparative interventional case series. A chart review of 7 patients who developed atypical mycobacterium infection after undergoing blepharoplasty was conducted.

Age-related changes in the pediatric human orbit on CT.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the relationships among orbital dimensions, globe diameter, and subject age.

Methods: A cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of 124 CT scans of subjects with no appreciable orbital or globe disease was performed by 1 observer (G.K.

Lipoblastomatosis: case report and review of the literature.

Purpose: To describe an unusual presentation of lipoblastomatosis and review the existing literature on lipoblastomatosis and lipoblastoma.

Methods: Case report and literature review.

Results: A 9-year-old girl was originally diagnosed as having preseptal cellulitis.

Monozygotic twins with incompletely concordant simple congenital ptosis in a 4-generation pedigree.

This case reports 4-year-old monozygotic twins incompletely concordant for simple congenital ptosis. Pedigree analysis demonstrates 4 generations of autosomal dominant transmission. The case and pedigree are reviewed in light of a number of recent advances in the understanding of genetic influences on simple congenital ptosis.

Infiltrative subcutaneous juvenile xanthogranuloma of the eyelid in a neonate.

An 18-day-old child presented with rapid enlargement of a firm subcutaneous eyelid mass present since birth. Imaging revealed extension into the anterior orbit. Incisional biopsy revealed juvenile xanthogranuloma.

Quantification of macular and optic disc hyperfluorescence after phacoemulsification in diabetes mellitus.

Purpose: To quantify changes in areas of hyperfluorescence of the macula, perifovea, and optic disc after phacoemulsification in patients with diabetes mellitus and evaluate relationships between hyperfluorescence, macular thickness, diabetic retinopathy (DR), and logMAR best corrected visual acuity (BCVA).

Setting: Ophthalmology Clinic and Operating Room, Ambulatory Care Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, and the University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Methods: This prospective case-control study comprised 30 eyes of 24 subjects with cataracts and diabetes mellitus with different levels of DR.

Periocular subperiosteal deep granuloma annulare in a child.

A 2-year-old child presented with a painless subperiosteal periorbital mass of 6 months' duration. This was associated with several small cutaneous nodules that resolved spontaneously before surgical excision of the orbital lesion. Excisional biopsy of the lesion revealed a deep granuloma annulare in a subperiosteal location along the superior orbital rim.