Comparison of the effects of dorzolamide-timolol fixed combination and brimonidine on intraocular pressure after phacoemulsification surgery.

Purpose: To compare the effects of dorzolamide-timolol combination and brimonidine on intraocular pressure (IOP) after phacoemulsification surgery.

Methods: This prospective, randomized study included 69 eyes of 43 patients undergoing phacoemulsification and foldable intraocular lens implantation. Twenty-one patients were women and 22 were men.

Bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation of the little toe.

A 19-year-old woman presented with pain at the lateral side of the fifth toe of her left foot, which was separated from the adjacent toe. Initial examination suggested dislocation of the fifth metatarsophalangeal joint due to a past fracture. Radiographs showed a mass arising from the proximal phalanx of the little toe, with no medullary and cortical continuity.

Evaluation of the neurosensory function of the medial meniscus in humans.

Purpose: Menisci are known to have receptors mainly concentrated at the anterior and posterior horns. Although they are purported to send afferent impulses to the central nervous system, this function has not been thoroughly evaluated. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether stimulation of the menisci initiates a cortical response.

Morton neuroma: comparative results of two conservative methods.

Background: The initial treatment of Morton neuromas consists of conservative methods that include shoe modifications and steroid injections. The purpose of this prospective study was to compare the efficacy of these two methods to determine which is more effective as the initial treatment method.

Methods: Eighty-two patients with Morton neuromas were randomly assigned to receive either footwear modification with orthoses or steroid injections as initial treatment.

Colour-coded mapping technique in impression cytology - findings in soft contact lens wearers and patients with other external eye diseases.

This study aimed to demonstrate metaplastic changes in a wide area of conjunctival epithelium using the mapping technique by colouring different stages of metaplastic changes after marking them on a millimetric scale paper under a light microscope. Data of 23 patients were studied: 19 contact lens wearers, 2 cases with dry eyes, 1 with lagophthalmus, 1 with conjunctivitis, and 13 normal subjects as controls. Cellulose acetate paper cut into crescents was applied to nasal and temporal quadrants of the conjunctiva.

Plasma thrombomodulin levels in lung cancer patients.

Background: Thrombomodulin (TM) is a glycoprotein and besides its anticoagulant property it is accepted as an onco developmental antigen. Considering these properties we hypothesised that active TMB might have a role in cancer cell behaviour.

Methods: We measured serum TMB levels by the enzyme immunoassay method in 40 patients with lung cancer and 20 healthy subjects.

Plasma and erythrocyte total antioxidant status in patients with benign and malign breast disease.

The study was carried out on 25 women with breast cancer, 25 with fibrocystic breast disease and 19 healthy subjects. Antioxidant enzyme activities and total antioxidant status (AOX) were measured in erythrocyte and plasma of patients and healthies. Among the studied parameters, the erythrocyte Glutathione Peroxidase (GSH-Px) and Catalase (CAT) activities of patients with breast cancer were significantly different as compared to the control group values (p < 0.

Tear LTC4 levels in patients with subclinical contact lens related giant papillary conjunctivitis.

We determined the tear levels of LTC4 in contact lens wearers who had minimal irritative symptoms and signs suggesting subclinical conjunctival abnormalities and the possible development of giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC). We examined 25 patients wearing rigid gas permeable lenses. Ten of the contact lens wearers had minimal irritative symptoms and nonspecific papillary hypertrophy, and 15 patients had no symptoms.