A 59-year-old woman with schizoaffective disorder presented with an itchy, blistering generalised rash. One month prior, she had started empagliflozin, a sodium glucose transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor, used in type-2-diabetes. She was already established on paliperidone, an atypical antipsychotic, for 1 year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/objectives: To determine the incidence, proportion and location of periocular tumours in an English county over a five year period, and compare to other studies in the UK and worldwide.
Subjects/methods: A retrospective review of histopathology reports was performed for all periocular excision biopsies of malignancies from the county's three main hospitals over a 5-year period. These hospitals cover a population of just over one million.
Eur J Ophthalmol
September 2021
Aims: To evaluate primary periocular basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) in depth including comparing histological margins with subtype, location and surgical specialty after wide local excision.
Methods: A retrospective review was performed for all BCCs excised from three hospitals over 5 years, covering a population of just over 1 million. Tumours were classified according to histological subtype location.