[Long term postural myopic shift assessment after posterior iris-claw aphakic intraocular lens implantation].

Purpose: Posterior chamber iris-claw intraocular lens (IOL) is often used in aphakic eyes with inadequate capsular support. Postoperatively, patients may describe better capabilities for near reading in a face-down position. The goal was to evaluate the indications, visual outcomes and complications of this IOL and to compare postoperative spherical equivalent between the prone and the face-down position.

Effectiveness and safety of dexamethasone implants for postsurgical macular oedema including Irvine-Gass syndrome: the EPISODIC-2 study.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of intravitreal dexamethasone implants for treating postsurgical macular oedema (PSMO) including Irvine-Gass syndrome and determining the predictive factors of treatment response.

Methods: Descriptive, observational, retrospective, consecutive, uncontrolled, multicentre, national case series. One hundred patients were included between April 2011 and June 2014, with a minimum of 1-year follow-up.

Unusual retinopathy associated with hemochromatosis.

Purpose: To describe unusual retinal findings of a patient affected by hemochromatosis.

Methods: Case report of a 49-year-old patient who presented a progressive loss of vision. Fundus photography, fluorescein angiography, full-field electroretinogram, autofluorescence imaging, and spectral domain optical coherence tomography were performed.

[Orbital neurenteric cyst. A case report and review of the literature].

Introduction: Neurenteric cysts defined as a cyst lined by endodermal-type epithelium are extremely rare. We report a rare case of an orbital neurenteric cyst.

Case Report: A 19-year-old female presented with an orbital cyst tumor that had cosmetic consequences.

[Early macular edema after phacoemulsification and suspected overdose of cefuroxime: report of six cases].

Antibiotic prophylaxis by intracameral cefuroxime injection, 1mg/0.1 mL after cataract surgery is increasing in popularity. Several cases of early postoperative macular edema have recently been reported after cefuroxime injection, most of them due to accidental cefuroxime overdose.

[Screening method for angle closure and angle closure glaucoma using scanning laser polarimeter GDxVCC and photodynamic gonioscopy in a darkened room. One-year outcomes of systematic peripheral iridotomy].

Introduction: Angle closure glaucoma, a recognized major world health issue disproportionately affecting women and Asians, is not often considered in our European populations, normotensive subjects, myopic patients, or subjects with a deep anterior chamber. Early diagnosis is worthwhile, as laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI) is an effective one-step treatment of the causal mechanism.

Patients And Methods: We have performed a retrospective study of patients who underwent an LPI, the indication for which was based on "photodynamic" gonioscopy in a darkened room showing iridotrabecular contact in darkness.

Driving habits in glaucoma patients.

Purpose: Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy leading to loss of visual function beginning with the peripheral visual field. One large population-based study found that individuals with visual impairment reported difficulties in performing most vision-dependent daily activities, including difficulty with driving. The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to investigate the driving habits of glaucoma patients and to determine the conformance of their visual acuity and visual fields with driving regulations.

Ocular artery thrombosis as an initial presentation of a prothrombin G20210A mutation.

The G20210A mutation in the prothrombin gene is an established risk factor for venous thrombosis. There is controversy as to the role played by this mutation in arterial thrombotic disease. We present the case of a 56-year-old man who presented with a central retinal artery occlusion of the left eye.

Incomplete penetrance of the predisposition to medulloblastoma associated with germ-line SUFU mutations.

Methods And Results: Germline SUFU mutations were identified in two families with several children under 3 years of age diagnosed with medulloblastoma. All medulloblastomas in which the histology was reviewed were of the desmoplastic subtype, including three with the rare extensive nodularity subtype. In both families, the mutation detected in the SUFU gene was a frameshift mutation.

Parental smoking, maternal alcohol, coffee and tea consumption during pregnancy and childhood malignant central nervous system tumours: the ESCALE study (SFCE).

Parental smoking and maternal alcohol and caffeinated beverage consumption are prevalent exposures which may play a role, either directly or through their influence on metabolism, in the aetiology of childhood malignant central nervous system (CNS) tumours. The hypothesis was investigated in the Epidemiological Study on childhood Cancer and Leukemia ESCALE study, a national population-based case-control study carried out in France in 2003-2004. The study included 209 incident cases of CNS tumours and 1681 population-based controls, frequency matched with the cases by age and sex.

[Epilepsy and focal lesions in children. Surgical management].

Epilepsy surgery has gained a large role in the treatment of intractable seizures in the last few decades because of the development of operative techniques and better identification of the cerebral anomalies using electrophysiological recordings and neuroimaging. A series of 419 children, aged from five months to 15 years, with epilepsy (medically refractory in 85.5% of them) associated with focal cortical lesions, who underwent surgery between 1986 and 2006 was analyzed to identify the factors that correlated with outcome.

Displacement of retained subfoveal perfluorocarbon liquid after vitreoretinal surgery.

Objective: To report a novel surgical procedure to displace retained subfoveal perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL).

Methods: Retrospective cases series. Three patients had retained subfoveal droplets after PFCL was used in vitrectomy repair of retinal detachment.

Pediatric craniopharyngiomas: classification and treatment according to the degree of hypothalamic involvement.

Object: The current treatment of craniopharyngiomas is evolving into one of a multimodal approach in which the aim is disease control and improved preservation of quality of life (QOL). To date, an appropriate classification system with which to individualize treatment is absent. The objectives of this study were to identify preoperative prognostic factors in patients with craniopharyngiomas and to develop a risk-based treatment algorithm.

[Focus on Dandy-Walker malformation].

The aim of this review is to summarize our knowledge about Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM) and introduce recent notions about its prognosis. DWM is a malformation associating hypoplasia of the vermis, pseudocystic fourth ventricle, upward displacement of the tentorium, torcular and lateral sinuses and anterio-posterior enlargement of the posterior fossa. It is frequently associated with genetic anomalies, brain malformations (anomalies of gyration, grey matter heterotopias, meningoceles, corpus callosum agenesis.

Non-penetrating deep sclerectomy for glaucoma associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome.

Purpose: To report the results of non-penetrating deep sclerectomy (NPDS) in the treatment of glaucoma associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS).

Methods: We carried out a retrospective case series analysis of patients who underwent NPDS for glaucoma associated with SWS between 1998 and 2003. The control of glaucoma after NPDS, the results of surgery on intraocular pressure, the need for additional medical treatment and surgical complications were studied.

Late rapid deterioration after endoscopic third ventriculostomy: additional cases and review of the literature.

Object: Late rapid deterioration after endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is a rare complication. The authors previously reported three deaths from three centers. Three other deaths and a patient who experienced rapid deterioration have also been reported.

Treatment of suprasellar cysts and patient outcome.

Object: The authors sought to determine the natural history of and optimal treatment for suprasellar cysts (SSCs).

Methods: Three hundred forty-two patients harboring intracranial cysts presented to the authors' neurosurgery unit between January 1986 and August 2004. The patients' records were reviewed to assess symptomatology, results of imaging studies, and outcome according to mode of treatment.

Failure of third ventriculostomy in the treatment of aqueductal stenosis in children.

Object. The goal of this study was to analyze the types of failure and long-term efficacy of third ventriculostomy in children. Methods.

[Inadvertent intravitreal lidocaine injection following subcutaneous palpebral anesthesia: retinal toxicity of lidocaine?].

Introduction: We report an atypical case of scleral perforation due to an inadvertent intravitreal lidocaine injection following palpebral anesthesia. We discuss the management of this rare complication and focus on the transient lidocaine toxicity on human retina.

Observation: A 29-year-old man presented with unilateral decreased vision during a lower right palpebral anesthetic injection for a chalazion removal procedure.

Neurenteric cysts in children: 16 consecutive cases and review of the literature.

Object: The authors of this retrospective review and analysis of the literature cover an institutional series of neurenteric cysts of the central nervous system in children treated in the magnetic resonance imaging era during a 14-year period.

Methods: Sixteen patients 20 days to 14 years of age are described. The most frequent signs and symptoms at presentation were acute spinal cord compression (11 patients), paresis of a cranial nerve (two patients), meningitis or infection (two patients), and intracranial hypertension (one patient).

Surgical implications of the thickened pituitary stalk accompanied by central diabetes insipidus.

Object: The authors discuss the indications for and timing of a diagnostic neurosurgical procedure in children with diabetes insipidus (DI) and a thickened pituitary stalk (TPS) on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.

Methods: Seven children with a TPS who presented with DI eventually underwent surgery for diagnostic purposes. The ages at onset of DI were 6 to 16 years, and the follow-up period until surgery was 26.

Comparison of optical coherence tomography models OCT1 and Stratus OCT for macular retinal thickness measurement.

Aims: To compare the values measured for retinal macular thickness with the first and last generations of the optical coherence tomograph (OCT1 and Stratus OCT, Zeiss, Humphrey Division).

Methods: This was a cohort study. 59 eyes were examined: 17 had a normal macula and 42 had a diabetic macular oedema.

Preoperative chemotherapy in children with high-risk medulloblastomas: a feasibility study.

Object: The authors set out to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of preoperative chemotherapy in treating high-risk medulloblastomas.

Methods: Between 1997 and 2000, 21 children with high-risk medulloblastomas (M > or = 2 and/or T3b/T4 according to the Chang classification) were treated consecutively in a pilot study. The protocol began with treatment of the hydrocephalus and confirmation of the diagnosis.