Patient experience with blepharoplasty.

Purpose: To prospectively study patients' postoperative experience with blepharoplasty and to determine how closely patients' expectations compare with their actual experience.

Methods: A prospective observational study of 51 consecutive patients undergoing bilateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty by a single surgeon (J.A.

Primary ocular presentation of sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma.

The authors describe 2 consecutive patients who presented to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with primary orbital presentation of sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma and were treated from July 2005 to April 2009. The patients were a 39-year-old woman and 54-year-old woman who both presented to the ophthalmology service due to complaints of diplopia. Imaging studies demonstrated large soft tissue masses originating in the sinuses with extension in the orbit in both cases.

Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the superficial temporal artery.

A 34-year-old man presented 1 week status post assault with a left orbital floor fracture for which he underwent repair. Approximately 3 weeks following the blunt trauma, he was noted to have a pulsatile mass over the left temple. CT angiography was performed to confirm the diagnosis of a superficial temporal artery pseudoaneurysm.

Underestimation of soft tissue entrapment by computed tomography in orbital floor fractures in the pediatric population.

Purpose: To compare the timing, radiologic, and clinical indications for surgical management of orbital floor fractures in the pediatric and adult populations.

Design: Retrospective observational case series.

Participants: Twenty-four pediatric and 31 adult patients who underwent primary repair of an orbital floor fracture.