PURPOSE To describe the clinical characteristics and ophthalmic management of 2 patients who developed gross enophthalmos after ventriculo-peritoneal shunting performed in their teenage years. A key radiologic feature is presented, and a conjectural mechanism is proposed for this disfiguring condition. METHODS Retrospective case note review for 2 patients requiring ophthalmic care for gross e...

objective:  to report the outcome of subciliary approach for inferior orbital rim fractures in a series of iranian patients. methods:  this was prospective cross-sectional, being performed during a 12-month period during 2013 in plastic surgery department of emamreza hospital of mashhad. we included 12 patients with traumatic inferior orbital rim fractures who underwent surgical repair through ...

Oculoplastic surgery in high-income countries is now recognised as a rapidly evolving and expanding subspecialty. In lowand middle-income countries, however, most oculoplastic surgery is performed by general ophthalmologists with varying levels of surgical training and experience. The aim of this study was to review the oculoplastic practices in Madagascar, including the nature of presenting di...

IN February, 1931, an article describing an operation for entropion by Sie-Boen-Lian appeared in the Klinische MIonatsblitter fuir Atugentheilkitutde. It so happened that Dr. J. David, who was not an ophthalmic specialist but a general practitioner, had several years before shown me a copy of an article of his own on this very subject. I therefore drew his attention to Sie-Boen-Lian's communica...