Publications by authors named "R Folberg"

Article Synopsis
  • A 54-year-old woman reported a 2-month growing mass on her left orbital rim, recalling a pencil injury from her childhood.
  • A CT scan showed a hyperdense lesion in the same area, but there was no impact on surrounding structures.
  • An excisional biopsy revealed noncaseating granulomatous inflammation linked to graphite particles, suggesting a reaction to the pencil injury.
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Several nomenclature and grading systems have been proposed for conjunctival melanocytic intraepithelial lesions (C-MIL). The fourth "WHO Classification of Eye Tumors" (WHO-EYE04) proposed a C-MIL classification, capturing the progression of noninvasive neoplastic melanocytes from low- to high-grade lesions, onto melanoma in situ (MIS), and then to invasive melanoma. This proposal was revised to the WHO-EYE05 C-MIL system, which simplified the high-grade C-MIL, whereby MIS was subsumed into high-grade C-MIL.

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Purpose: Dacryoliths of the canalicular pathway are classically attributed to species as the most common organism. However, global shifts toward and species have been reported. The objective of this article is to update the American Midwest epidemiology of lacrimal system dacryoliths for targeted clinical treatment.

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