TWO CASES OF RETINAL DETACHMENT PRESENTING CERTAIN UNUSUAL FEATURES AFTER OPERATION BY SURFACE DIATHERMY

Photographs of Retinal Detachment in Aphakia before and after Operation.

Unusual Retinal Detachment , Possibly Sex - Linkedw

THE occurrence of retinal detachment with some rather unusual features in three brothers, and in the only son of their normral sister, led to the present study. Members of three generations of this family have been examined, and eight affected individuals were discovered, all males (Fig. 1). The ages of the affected individuals ranged from 13 to 60 years. As the appearances in Generation III 1 ...

Pancreatic carcinoma: report of two cases presenting with unusual metastases.

We report two patients with adenocarcinoma of the body and tail of the pancreas who presented with features localized to the metastatic sites. A 67-year-old gentleman presented with right groin mass due to spermatic cord metastasis and later developed duodenal obstruction; the other gentleman was 69 years old and presented with change of bowel habit as a result of pelvic/pararectal metastasis.

Unusual presentation of gestational trophoblastic neoplasm: Report of two cases

  Abstract: Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasm (GTN) is among rare human tumors which can be observed with widespread metastasis. Two young patients with emergent neurologic symptoms with no gynecological problems are presented in this report. GTN was later diagnosed in both cases with brain metastasis. The first case: A 22 years old patient, admitted to the infectious disease ward, with probab...

Diplopia after retinal detachment surgery.

Diplopia following retinal detachment usually responds to simple measures. Fifteen out of 311 cases developed diplopia lasting more than three months after conventional retinal detachment surgery. Binocular single vision was restored in 12 of the 15 cases (80%). The mean follow-up was four years. Diplopia was eliminated stepwise. If prisms were ineffective, our first surgical procedure was remo...