Efficacy of Balanced Torsional Phacoemulsification Tip for Cataract Surgery.

Purpose: To compare the efficacy of the Intrepid® Balanced torsional phacoemulsification tip to that of the 30° Ozil® and 45° Kelman® tips using Centurion Vision System.

Methods: This study included 150 eyes that underwent torsional phacoemulsification surgery using 30° Ozil tip (Group 1, 48 eyes), Intrepid Balanced tip (Group 2, 52 eyes), or 45° Kelman tip (Group 3, 50 eyes). Ultrasound time (UST), cumulative dissipated energy (CDE), average phaco power, average torsional amplitude, balanced salt solution volume, aspiration and operation time, and preoperative, postoperative corrected distance visual acuity, central corneal thickness were recorded.

Glaucoma implant surgery with autogenous fascia lata in scleromalacia perforans.

A 51-year-old woman with bilateral scleromalacia perforans and advanced glaucoma in the left eye was evaluated. Glaucoma implant surgery with autogenous fascia lata graft for reinforcement of the underlying sclera and a patch graft overlying the tube to prevent tube erosion was planned because of insufficient response to medical glaucoma therapy. Intraocular pressure decreased from 55 to 15 mm Hg and remained under 20 mm Hg throughout the follow-up period of 24 months.

Deep sclerectomy with a nonabsorbable implant (T-Flux): preliminary results.

Background: Deep sclerectomy is one of the two main types of nonpenetrating surgical methods of treating open-angle glaucoma. We aimed to determine, in a prospective study, the efficacy, success rate and complications of deep sclerectomy with implantation of a nonabsorbable drain made of highly hydrophilic acrylic (T-Flux).

Methods: Twenty-five patients (25 eyes) with medically uncontrolled open-angle glaucoma were treated by deep sclerectomy with implantation of the T-Flux drain.

Treatment results of osteosarcoma of the extremity in children and adolescents at Ege University Hospital.

Twenty-five patients were treated for osteosarcoma of the extremity at Ege University Hospital. Eight of them were metastatic. All patients received cisplatin, doxorubicin, ifosfamide, and methotrexate preoperatively.

Multiple pterygium syndrome.

Severely involved female child with Multiple Pterygium Syndrome (Escobar) is described. She had the typical findings of the syndrome such as multiple pterygiums, characteristic facial appearance, genital anomalies. She also had bilateral optic atrophy.