Long-Term Follow-up of Spasmus Nutans.

Purpose: Spasmus nutans is an acquired form of nystagmus that is classically associated with torticollis and titubations of the head, often presenting in the first year of life and spontaneously resolving within the next 2 years. The purpose of our study was to record and characterize the long-term prognosis of children diagnosed with spasmus nutans.

Methods: All patients under the age of 21 years with a diagnosis of spasmus nutans were included.

Conservative Management of Lower Eyelid Epiblepharon in Children.

Purpose: Although much literature has focused on various techniques to repair epiblepharon, no study has addressed how frequently surgical intervention is required.

Methods: The authors tabulated data from all patients with epiblepharon seen over the past 15 years.

Results: Eighty-nine patients were included, 61 (69%) with tearing, discharge, conjunctival injection, or eye rubbing.

Stepwise treatment paradigm for congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Purpose: To compare the outcomes achieved by a series of patients treated in a stepwise fashion who presented with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Methods: In this retrospective interventional case series, 127 patients, ranging in age from 1 month to 81 months, with 173 lacrimal systems diagnosed with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction, were treated in a stepwise fashion. A treatment paradigm was evaluated that prescribed probing as an initial procedure regardless of age.

Eyelid abscess as a presenting sign of occult sinusitis.

Purpose: To describe 5 patients who presented with eyelid abscesses whose subsequent workup revealed occult sinusitis.

Methods: We reviewed the medical records of 5 patients who presented with eyelid abscess. Common presenting signs and symptoms were identified.