Tarsal coalitions have an incidence of 2% and are often underdiagnosed. These are considered to be one of the causes of chronic ankle and foot pain. Among all tarsal coalitions, the talonavicular type represents a rare and uncommon condition. The purpose of this article was to present the case of a 35-year-old male patient with a bilateral talonavicular coalition treated conservatively. A revie...

et al. [3] introduced the term ‘tarsoconjunctival crypts.’ They postulated that the tarsal conjunctiva sequestration of bacteria was initiated by trauma caused either by inf lammation from Stevens-Johnson syndrome or by mechanical abrasion from nocturnal lid eversion. Partial sloughing of the tarsal conjunctiva and subsequent re-epithelization over a lamellar layer of epithelium formed an epith...

A ENEWED interest in evisceration, utilizing an intrascleral implant, has been apparent since the fear of sympathetic ophthalmitis has been largely dispelled by the reports of the results of evisceration in over 200 cases by Ruedemann (1958a, b), 190 cases by Poulard (1936), and 188 cases previously reported by Berens, Carter, and Breakey (1956, 1957). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate m...