We read with great interest the paper by Kilmartin et al in which the authors noted that most of the newly diagnosed cases of sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) in their prospective study occurred in eyes that had sustained multiple injuries, either via trauma or intraocular surgery, and that enucleation following the onset of SO in these eyes was not related to a better visual outcome in the fellow e...

We report a case of renal angiomyolipoma with retroperitoneal hemorrhage treated by enucleation in a 47 year-old male. The mass in the anterior side of the left kidney, revealed by sonography and CT, was diagnosed as angiomyolipoma with a retroperitoneal hematoma caused by its spontaneous rupture. Removal of hematoma and enucleation of the tumor were performed after the diagnosis. Diagnosis and...

Pancreatic tumors rarely occur in adolescents, and the appropriateness of radical resection for these patients remains controversial.Medical records were retrospectively reviewed for patients younger than 19 years who underwent radical resection or limited resection (enucleation) between 2000 and 2015. Patient demographics, clinical characteristics, operative details, growth, and survival were ...

KCOT is one of the most aggressive odontogenic cysts with a high recurrence rate, this was explained histopathologically as it typically shows a thin, friable wall, which is often difficult to enucleate from the bone in one piece, and have small satellite cysts within the fibrous wall. Multiple surgical approaches were introduced including decompression, marsupilization, enucleation with or wit...

Sixteen cases of medulloepithelioma are described. Clinical data and follow-up were available on 15. Four patients underwent iridocyclectomy initially; all later needed enucleation and one had an orbital recurrence. The remaining 12 patients underwent primary enucleation. All 15 patients with follow-up are alive with no evidence of tumour recurrence. It is suggested that enucleation be performe...

A series of 30 enucleated eyes, all of which had a primary histological diagnosis of scleritis, was analysed. The average age of patients at enucleation was 68 years; many of these patients had had the disease for more than 30 years. In 40 per cent the diagnosis of scleritis was unsuspected and was often masked by multiple complications. Scleritis with uveitis and glaucoma was the most common c...

Ocular enucleation induces profound morphological alterations in central visual areas. However, little is known about the response of glial cells and possible inflammatory processes in visual brain areas resulting from eye enucleation. In this study, immunoblotting and immunostaining assays revealed increased expression of astrocyte and microglia markers in the rat superior colliculus (SC) betw...

PURPOSE To assess orbital volume in weaned rabbits, submitted to enucleation and evisceration, with orbital volume reconstitution using porous polyethylene (PP) spheres, analyzed by computed tomography, by the water displacement test and external orbital measures using Image-J software. METHODS This experimental randomized study consisted of 48 albino rabbits, with 42 days of life, submitted ...

After enucleation of PK (pig kidney embryo) cells using cytochalasin D centrioles remained approximately in 80% of cytoplasts. Some cytoplasts retained a single centriole. 14-16 h after enucleation large secondary lysosomes and lipid droplets were evident around the centrosome of many cytoplasts. In part of the cytoplasts replicating centrioles were found 16 h after enucleation. Ouabain treatme...

Iris neovascularization (NVI) in eyes with newly diagnosed retinoblastoma is a hallmark of advanced tumor. These eyes often display secondary glaucoma and additional partial or complete retinal detachment. From a clinical perspective, NVI with secondary glaucoma is noted in approximately 12% of eyes with retinoblastoma, and from a pathology perspective, NVI has been found in 44% of eyes followi...