purpose : granular cell tumors (gct) are benign unusual neoplasms which have been proven to have a schwann cell phenotype. they rarely occur in the eye region. case reports : we report three cases of gct in the ocular adnexa including palpebra, subconjuctiva and orbit which rarely occur. patients are, a young girl with the lesion in orbit and presentation of proptosis, a middle aged man with th...

PURPOSE In a retrospective study, we evaluated the complications in using the motility peg system (nonsleeved and sleeved) for hydroxyapatite orbital implants in an anophthalmic socket. METHODS Drilling for motility peg placement was performed in 265 patients with hydroxyapatite implantation: nonsleeved peg system (n = 191), sleeved peg system (n = 74). A statistical analysis was performed us...

We investigated the function of Lhx2, a LIM homeobox gene expressed in developing B-cells, forebrain and neural retina, by analyzing embryos deficient in functional Lhx2 protein. Lhx2 mutant embryos are anophthalmic, have malformations of the cerebral cortex, and die in utero due to severe anemia. In Lhx2-/- embryos specification of the optic vesicle occurs; however, development of the eye arre...

IN a previous paper (Collier, Duke-Elder, and Jones, 1958) we described the results of inoculating human volunteers with virus isolated by Collier and Sowa (1958) from a patient in the Gambia with trachoma. Three volunteers were inoculated by the conjunctival route, and in one, an anophthalmic man, an unequivocal infection was induced with all the conjunctival and laboratory signs of trachoma. ...

The unfortunate loss or absence of an eye may be caused by congenital defect , irreparable trauma, tumor or blind eye. The role of the maxillofacial prosthodontist in fabricating an ocular prosthesis to restore facial symmetry and normal appearance for the anophthalmic patient becomes essential. A custom-made ocular prosthesis is an excellent alternative for the people who lose their eye especi...

Loss of eye has a bad effect on the psychology of the patient. Eye prosthesis is fabricated to regain the patient’s confidence by meticulous replacement of the missing eye. Immediate fitting of an anophthalmic socket with an artificial eye may not always be possible, and a delayed prosthesis delivery may result in settling and sinking of the prosthesis into the socket, therefore requiring orbit...

two cases of hydatid cysts of the orbit causing unilateral exophthalmos are reported. diagnosis were suspected by means of computed tomography (ct) and confirmed at operation. ct changes are described and its value in diagnosis of this lesion particularly in the endemic areas is stressed.

Homoclinic bifurcation with one orbit flip, two inclination flips and resonance in the tangent directions of homoclinic orbit is considered. By studying the associated successor functions constructed from a local active coordinate system, we prove the existence of double 1-periodic orbit, 1-homoclinic orbit, and also some coexistence conditions of 1-periodic orbit and 1-homoclinic orbit.