Menstrual Irregularities and Amenorrhea in Thyroid Eye Disease Patients Treated With Teprotumumab.

Purpose: To evaluate the rates of amenorrhea and menstrual irregularities in patients with active thyroid eye disease treated with teprotumumab.

Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of patients with active thyroid eye disease treated between 2020 and 2022 at a single institution. Female thyroid eye disease patients with regular menstruation at baseline who completed 8 infusions of teprotumumab were assessed.

Pathologic Features, Treatment, and Clinical Outcomes of Lacrimal Gland Cancer.

Objectives: Lacrimal gland cancer is a rare malignancy with little data known about its pathologic characteristics or optimal management. We performed a large database analysis using the National Cancer Database (NCDB) to elucidate this unusual condition.

Methods: Patients with lacrimal gland cancer diagnosed between 2004 and 2018 were included in the analysis.

Prospective Assessment of Otologic Adverse Events due to Teprotumumab: Preliminary Results.

Objective: To assess a series of patients receiving teprotumumab therapy and objectively quantify the rates of otologic adverse events.

Study Design: A prospective cohort study of adult patients receiving teprotumumab between May 2020 and January 2022.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Globe Compression by Bone Fragments in Orbital Blow-in Fractures: A Case Series and Systematic Review.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of orbital blow-in fractures involving compression of the globe by bone fragments.

Methods: A retrospective case series and systematic literature review were performed.

Results: Three male patients (mean age 29 years) with orbital blow-in fractures causing globe indentation presented with extraocular movement restriction, choroidal folds, and B-scan ultrasonography demonstrating deformation of the globe contour by a hyperechoic bone fragment.

Central Retinal Artery Visualization with Cone-Beam CT Angiography.

Background There are multiple tools available to visualize the retinal and choroidal vasculature of the posterior globe. However, there are currently no reliable in vivo imaging techniques that can visualize the entire retrobulbar course of the retinal and ciliary vessels. Purpose To identify and characterize the central retinal artery (CRA) using cone-beam CT (CBCT) images obtained as part of diagnostic cerebral angiography.

Eosinophilic mucin chronic rhinosinusitis with orbital involvement: management strategies based on clinical presentation.

Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) and eosinophilic mucin chronic rhinosinusitis (EMCRS) are subtypes of a chronic rhinosinusitis with eosinophilia that have different diagnostic criteria but are phenotypically similar. Ophthalmic complications may be the presenting symptoms. Treatment of ophthalmic complications is typically directed at reducing the inflammatory burden in the sinuses and rarely requires direct surgical intervention.

Congenital Eyelid Imbrication and Floppy Eyelid Syndrome in a Patient With Cat Eye Syndrome.

A newborn male with cat eye syndrome presented with progressively worsening bilateral upper eyelid imbrication, floppy eyelids, and ptosis. Despite conservative management, he remained unable to open his eyelids. Surgical correction was planned to prevent bilateral sensory deprivation amblyopia and was delayed until 5 months of age due to systemic health concerns.

Targeted Neoadjuvant Intra-arterial Chemotherapy in Lacrimal Gland Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma: A Histological Correlation Using Apoptotic Tumor Markers.

Neoadjuvant intra-arterial cytoreductive chemotherapy is used for the treatment of lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinomas (ACC) to improve outcomes in this condition with an otherwise dismal prognosis. We share our experience in the management of an advanced case of ACC using a novel, highly targeted intra-arterial cytoreductive chemotherapy delivery technique involving both the internal and external carotid circulation, with an attempt to correlate the effect histologically. Refinement of the chemotherapy delivery using the tumor's vascular anatomy and appropriate blood vessel selection may lead to future globe sparing procedures without compromising survival.

Ophthalmic artery occlusion due to orbital compartment syndrome after a frontotemporal craniotomy.

A 32-year-old female with a right frontal lobe glioma underwent an elective frontotemporal craniotomy. One hour postoperatively, the patient developed a right orbital compartment syndrome (OCS) with unilateral acute vision loss, proptosis, afferent pupillary defect, and complete ophthalmoplegia. The patient underwent emergent lateral canthotomy and inferior cantholysis.

Double Frost Suture Technique for Simultaneous Skin Grafting of the Upper and Lower Eyelids.

The double Frost suture is a useful supplement to the reconstruction of ipsilateral upper and lower eyelid defects with full-thickness skin grafts. This technique involves silk traction sutures that overlap the upper and lower eyelids to place them on maximal stretch after placement of 2 full-thickness skin grafts. It has the added benefit of protecting the cornea and compressing both grafts under 1 bolster.

Conjunctival Exophytic Schneiderian-type Papillomas: A Rare Occurrence.

Conjunctival papillomas are common tumors that exhibit an exophytic growth pattern, comprised of multiple filiform fronds of squamous epithelium that contain fibrovascular cores. The inverted (endophytic) variety of papilloma, often termed "Schneiderian," rarely occurs on the conjunctiva, with only 15 cases reported to date. Endophytic and exophytic papillomas are well described arising in the sinonasal Schneiderian epithelium where a low rate of malignant transformation may occur in the endophytic type; malignant transformation in exophytic sinonasal papillomas is exceedingly rare.

Teprotumumab and Hearing Loss: Case Series and Proposal for Audiologic Monitoring.

Purpose: To present a protocol for audiologic monitoring in the setting of teprotumumab treatment of thyroid eye disease, motivated by 4 cases of significant hearing loss, and review the relevant literature.

Methods: Cases of hearing loss in the setting of teprotumumab were retrospectively elicited as part of a multi-institutional focus group, including oculoplastic surgeons, a neurotologist and an endocrinologist. A literature review was performed.

Partial Vision Loss After Orbital Decompression in a Patient With Thyroid Eye Disease, Chorioretinal Folds, and Disc Edema.

Concomitant chorioretinal folds with disc edema can be seen in cases of thyroid eye disease presenting with compressive optic neuropathy and may portend optic nerve ischemia. We describe an unusual case of a 64-year-old man who developed partial vision loss after orbital decompression.

Multicameral Steatocystoma Simplex of the Caruncle.

A yellow cyst of the caruncle in a 68-year-old man displayed the characteristic sebaceous glands and sebocytes of steatocystoma within the cyst wall, with a unique configuration of multiple branching compartments. The cyst lining was of trichilemmal character, lacking a keratohyalin granular layer, and replicated the immunohistochemical characteristics of a previously reported caruncular steatocystoma with the exception of a positive trichilemmal marker, calretinin, in the present case. Four previous cases of caruncular steatocystoma have been described, only one of which incorporated immunohistochemical analysis.

Pseudopemphigoid: Sarcoidosis presenting as cicatricial conjunctivitis with symblepharon.

Conjunctival involvement in sarcoidosis is commonly characterized by epibulbar nodules or follicular conjunctivitis. The authors describe an apparently healthy woman who developed extensive monocular cicatricial conjunctivitis with symblepharon. The array of conditions presenting with cicatricial conjunctivitis was considered, with mucous membrane pemphigoid leading the diagnostic possibilities.

Orbital Rosai-Dorfman disease initially diagnosed as IgG4-related disease: a case report.

Inflammatory orbital lesions include a broad list of diagnoses, many of them with overlapping clinical and radiographic features. They often present a diagnostic conundrum, even to the most experienced orbital specialist, thus placing considerable weight on surgical biopsy and histopathological analysis. However, histopathological diagnosis is also inherently challenging due to the rarity of these lesions and the overlaps in histologic appearance among distinct disease entities.

Orbital and Eyelid Inflammation With "Muciphages" and Extravasated Mucin From an Ethmoido-orbital Mucocele.

A 22-year-old woman presented with an acute compressive optic neuropathy due to a ruptured ethmoido-orbital mucocele. She underwent urgent orbital decompression and drainage of the mucocele via an endoscopic approach. Postoperatively, her course was complicated by an orbital compartment syndrome supervened, exhibiting severe eyelid edema caused by infiltration with mucin and mucin-containing macrophages ("muciphages").

Keratinous Cyst of the Caruncle Developing From a Sebaceous Gland Duct: Case Report With Immunohistochemical Analysis.

An enlarging white caruncular cyst in a 24-year-old woman proved to be a keratinous cyst lined by keratinizing squamous epithelium that lacked a keratohyalin granular layer (trichilemmal keratinization). The cyst most likely originated from a sebaceous gland duct. A panel of immunohistochemical stains was employed that compared and contrasted the cyst lining with the overlying caruncular conjunctival epithelium and further eliminated the likelihood of a conjunctival cyst.