Canaliculorhinostomy-Indications and Surgical Results.

Purpose: To report the surgical results of canaliculorhinostomy for patients with distal canalicular obstruction and lacking a structurally functional lacrimal sac who would otherwise require a conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy (CDCR) with Jones tube placement.

Design: Retrospective observational case series.

Methods: Setting: Single tertiary institution.

Huge cavernous hemangiomas enveloping the optic nerve successfully removed by a vertical lid split orbitotomy.

A 63-year-old woman presented with a 15-year history of gradually increasing proptosis of right eye. Ocular examination revealed proptosis of 9 mm with decreased visual acuity in her right eye. CT scan showed a well-circumscribed and enhancing orbital mass filling almost the entire right orbit.

The usefulness of the "double-needle" technique for combined cataract extraction and corneal transplantation.

The authors report using double-needle cataract extraction in the course of triple surgery and describe the usefulness of a double-needle technique. Before penetrating preparation of the recipient cornea, two straight double-arm 10-0 Prolene needles (Ethicon, Edinburgh, Scotland) were inserted in parallel on the recipient corneal bed transcorneally immediately anterior to the iris. The use of two needles stabilized the iris plane and offset positive vitreous pressure during triple surgery, continuous curvilinear capsulorrhexis, phacoemulsification, irrigation, and aspiration, allowing the safe implantation of an intraocular lens in the bag in an open-sky state.

Novel technique of corneal biopsy by using a femtosecond laser in infectious ulcers.

Purpose: To describe femtosecond laser-assisted corneal biopsy and its use in assessing the causative organisms in 2 cases of infectious corneal ulcers.

Methods: A 27-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, both of whom showed uncertain symptoms, repeated negative test results for infectious organisms, and after no improvement despite empirical therapy, underwent diagnostic corneal biopsy by using a femtosecond laser. A corneal flap depth of 200 microm and a diameter of 3 mm were obtained from each patient.