Aortic replacement in aorto-occlusive disease: an observational study.

Background: For many patients with aorto-occlusive disease, where stent deployment is not possible, surgery remains the only treatment option available. The aim of this study was to assess the results of aortic reconstruction surgery performed in patients with critical ischaemia.

Methods: All patients with critical ischaemia undergoing surgery during 1991-2004 were identified from a prospectively maintained database.

Eyelid metastasis from lung carcinoma.

A 74-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of swelling in the right upper lid. Biopsy of the lesion showed moderate to poorly differentiated invasive squamous cell carcinoma. He was recently diagnosed with squamous carcinoma of the lung with similar histology to the eyelid lesion.