Publications by authors named "Julius R Lukas"
Human extraocular muscles are unique in several ways including their endowment with proprioceptive organs. Aim of this study was to establish a classification of intrafusal muscle fibers of human extraocular muscles based on their histochemical and immunohistochemical properties and to determine their relationship to extrafusal extraocular muscle fiber types in this respect. Using light microscopy, intrafusal muscle fibers were followed on consecutive cross-sections and classified according to the localization of their myonuclei and to their enzyme- and myosin-immunohistochemical characteristics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine the long-term functional results of epikeratophakia for myopic patients.
Design: Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series.
Participants: Twenty-two patients (32 eyes; average age, 43+/-6 years) who underwent epikeratophakia surgery for high myopia.
Purpose: To present the clinical and histologic findings of a patient in whom intumescent cataract developed after successful topical mitomycin-C (MMC) chemotherapy for conjunctival melanoma originating from primary acquired conjunctival melanosis (PAM) with atypia.
Design: Observational case report; follow-up at 30 months.
Methods: In a patient with PAM and subsequent conjunctival melanoma that was successfully treated with topical MMC chemotherapy an intumescent cataract developed after two cycles of 0.
Purpose: To assess corneal sensitivity in patients 10 or more years after epikeratoplasty for myopia, aphakia, hyperopia, and keratoconus.
Methods: A total of 45 eyes of 33 patients (age range at examination 33 to 55 yr) were included in the study. Corneal sensitivity thresholds using an electromagnetic aesthesiometer (Draeger) were measured at various locations on the lenticule and the recipient cornea.