Systemic absorption of mitomycin-C when used in refractive surgery.

Purpose: To determine whether corneal topical application of mitomycin-C (MMC) results in measurable plasma levels of systemic absorption.

Setting: Madigan Army Medical Center, Refractive Surgery Center, Fort Lewis, Washington, and Micro-Constants Laboratory, San Diego, California, USA.

Design: Case-control study.

Severe eye injuries in the war in Iraq, 2003-2005.

Purpose: To document the incidence and treatment of patients with severe ocular and ocular adnexal injuries during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Design: Retrospective hospital-based observational analysis of injuries.

Participants: All coalition forces, enemy prisoners of war, and civilians with severe ocular and ocular adnexal injuries.

Ocular war injuries of the Iraqi Insurgency,January-September 2004.

Purpose: To document the types and causes of ocular and ocular adnexal injuries treated by United States Army ophthalmologists serving in Iraq during the Iraqi Insurgency.

Design: Prospective hospital-based observational analysis of injuries.

Participants: All coalition troops, enemy prisoners of war, and civilians with severe ocular and ocular adnexal injuries.

Lower eyelid herniation of orbital fat may complicate periocular corticosteroid injection.

Purpose: To report a case of lower eyelid herniation of orbital fat occurring after periocular corticosteroid injection.

Design: Interventional case report.

Methods: A 44-year-old man with asymmetrical pars planitis complicated by right cystoid macular edema was treated with multiple right orbital floor injections of triamcinolone through the lower eyelid.