Purpose: To detect Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae) gene in a patient with bilateral orbital musoca-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma.
Design: Interventional case report.
The authors report the formation of a subtenon cyst following subtenon triamcinolone injection for chronic recurrent uveitis in Behçet's disease. The steroid was inadvertently placed superficially in the anterior subtenon space and was encapsulated eventually to present as a subtenon cyst. The episode of uveitis recurrence, which did not regress, required treatment with a repeat posterior subtenon injection 2 months later.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus
November 2004
An 8-month-old Chinese girl with linear nevus sebaceous syndrome had a right upper lid coloboma and right superior scleral ectasia. At 20 months old, successful surgical repair of the lid coloboma was performed with particular attention paid to the sclera ectasia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the clinical outcome and quantify histologically the amount of microscopic internal limiting membrane (ILM) and epiretinal membrane (ERM) present in ILM and ERM specimens obtained from ERM surgery.
Design: Interventional consecutive case series.
Methods: Patients scheduled for ERM surgery were recruited prospectively.
Purpose: To report the location of premacular hemorrhage in Valsalva retinopathy and epiretinal membrane formation with internal limiting membrane (ILM) wrinkling after neodymium;yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser membranotomy.
Design: Interventional case report.
Methods: A 35-year-old man with a massive premacular hemorrhage due to Valsalva retinopathy underwent Nd:YAG laser membranotomy.
We describe a case of isolated bilateral microspherophakia with optic disc colobomata. A satisfactory outcome was achieved following uneventful lensectomy and scleral fixation of an intraocular lens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To describe the use of postoperative topical mitomycin C (MMC) in the treatment of recurrent conjunctival papilloma.
Methods: Case report.
Results: We report a 26-year-old man with recurrent conjunctival papilloma despite repeated surgical excision, cauterization, and cryotherapy.