Early onset sebaceous carcinoma.

Background: Ocular sebaceous carcinoma can masquerade as benign lesions resulting in delay of diagnosis. Early recognition is even more difficult in young patients where the disease rarely occurs. Here, we provide a clinicopathological correlation of ocular sebaceous carcinoma in a young individual lacking history of hereditary cancer or immunosuppression.

One medial triangular Tutoplast sling as a frontalis suspension for adult myogenic blepharoptosis.

Purpose: The treatment of choice for medium to severe blepharoptosis with minimal or no levator function is frontalis suspension with a sling, using a rectangular or rhomboid sling placement technique. We describe the short-term, follow-up results of frontalis suspension surgery for adult myogenic blepharoptosis using Tutoplast, a commercially available fascia lata allograft.

Methods: We conducted a consecutive, interventional case study.

Cosmetic oculofacial applications of botulinum toxin: a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Objective: To determine the safety and effectiveness of botulinum toxin for cosmetic oculofacial use.

Methods: Literature searches for relevant citations were conducted in October 2003 for the years 1965 to 2003. The panel reviewed and rated the articles for study design, methods, and results.

The smooth surface tunnel porous polyethylene enucleation implant.

Background And Objective: To describe early clinical results with the porous polyethylene smooth surface tunnel (SST) enucleation implant.

Patients And Methods: Uncontrolled, prospective interventional case series of patients undergoing enucleation with placement of the SST implant. This implant consists of a porous polyethylene sphere with a smooth anterior surface containing pre-drilled tunnels to facilitate direct suturing of the rectus muscles to the implant without use of an implant wrap.

Anophthalmic ptosis: investigation of the mechanisms and statistical analysis.

Purpose: To investigate the mechanisms producing ptosis in anophthalmic patients by comparing potential risk factors among patients with ptosis with a control group. Specific techniques for achieving optimal aesthetic results in the surgical correction of anophthalmic ptosis are recommended.

Methods: Data from 94 anophthalmic patients with ptosis and 44 control patients without ptosis were retrospectively collected and analyzed.

Orbital implants in enucleation surgery: a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Objective: To compare prosthetic and implant motility and the incidence of complications associated with porous and nonporous enucleation implants.

Methods: Literature searches conducted in January 2002 for 1985 to 2001 and May 2002 for October 2001 to 2002 retrieved relevant citations. The searches were conducted in MEDLINE and limited to articles published in English with abstracts.

A simple algorithm for selection of implant size for enucleation and evisceration: a prospective study.

Purpose: This prospective study tested a simple formula for selecting an implant size for patients undergoing enucleation, evisceration, and secondary implantation. The formula axial length-2 mm=implant diameter (subtract 1 mm from implant diameter for evisceration and for hyperopia) was tested by the outcome measures, superior sulcus deformity, enophthalmos, and volume of the prosthesis.

Methods: Fifty-four patients undergoing primary or secondary implant surgery after enucleation or evisceration received implants based on the above formula.