A survey of incidental ocular trauma by pencil and pen.

Aim: To determine characteristic features of ocular trauma resulted from self-trauma by writing instruments among pediatric population.

Methods: Thirty-six children who suffered from self-inflicted ocular trauma with a writing instrument were included in this prospective cross-sectional study.

Results: The mean age was 5.

Orbital metastasis: a rare manifestation of scapular bone osteosarcoma.

Purpose: To report a case of orbital metastasis from scapular bone osteosarcoma.

Case Report: A 55-year-old man who was a known case of scapular bone osteosarcoma, was referred to our clinic with ocular symptoms including acute painful decreased vision, proptosis, conjunctival injection, and chemosis. He had undergone surgical excision of the original tumor and received systemic chemotherapy 4 months before.

Accuracy of 3 imaging modalities for evaluation of the posterior lens capsule in traumatic cataract.

Purpose: To compare the accuracy of 3 imaging modalities for preoperative evaluation of the posterior lens capsule in traumatic cataract.

Setting: Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

Design: Case series.

Lower lid retraction in thyroid orbitopathy: lamellar shortening or proptosis?

To investigate any correlation between lower lid retraction and proptosis and also between lower lid retraction and lamellar length, as measured by fornix depth, in patients with thyroid eye disease (TED). One hundred and sixty-six eyes of 83 patients with TED were enrolled. The inferior fornix depth, Hertel exophthalmometry measurement, clinical activity score, and lower lid position were the main outcome variables.