BACKGROUND/AIMS The authors investigated the expression of S100A1, S100A6, S100B, MelanA, and CEA in conjunctival naevi, primary acquired melanosis (PAM), conjunctival melanoma, and uveal melanoma in order to assess their potential usefulness in the pathological differential diagnosis of these entities. METHODS Paraffin embedded sections of 18 conjunctival naevi, 14 PAM, 16 conjunctival melan...

Herein, we report our experience in treating extensive traumatic submacular hemorrhage with a single dose of intravitreal ranibizumab. A 23-year-old healthy Malay man presented with a progressive reduction of central vision in the left eye of 2 days' duration following a history of blunt trauma. Visual acuity was reduced to counting fingers. Examination revealed infero-temporal subconjunctival ...

In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the co-existence of ophthalmic pterygium with other ocular surface lesions in a cohort of patients from the Cretan population. This is a retrospective evaluation of all pterygia in patients examined and treated at the Department of Ophthalmology of the University Hospital of Heraklion, Greece during an 8-year period (from June 2006 to June 2014). A tot...

purpose : to present the conjunctival aphthous ulceration in behçet’s disease (bd) case report : a 36-year-old woman with a known history of bd presenting an isolated, monosymptomatic conjunctival bulbar aphthosis. the eye was photophobic and painful. the lesion appeared four days prior to the consultation and measured 3.5 to 1.5 mm, which was totally excised and underwent pathological investig...

we are describing a new surgical approach in the management of advanced ocular surface cicatrization through a single procedure conjunctival-limbal-corneal allograft in which the external eye is resurfaced it involves a lamellar corneolimbal keratoplasty, 360° limbal stem cell transfer (on a “bipedicle” conjunctival-corneal carrier), and conjunctival tissue transplantation - all in a single con...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that a subset of conjunctival melanocytic proliferations exists that cannot be reproducibly classified as benign, malignant, or indeterminate. METHODS Three groups of excisional biopsy specimens of conjunctival melanocytic proliferations were evaluated by 5 ophthalmic pathologists. These groups included lesions that were considered b...

PURPOSE To compare efficacy of a 1-day versus 3-day application of topical levofloxacin in reducing ocular surface bacteria. METHODS In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 100 volunteer patients (50 per group) were assigned to receive topical 0.5% levofloxacin four times daily for 1 day or 3 days. Conjunctival cultures were obtained prior to (T0) and after the application of antibio...

An old lady of about 55 years was slightly hit accidentally with an apple on her left eye, resulting in a severe sub-conjunctival ecchymosis. This lady had myopia of a fairly high degree and has been wearing glasses, 8 D. sph. c 2.5 cyl, prescribed by me some time ago. After this accident she consulted a general practitioner who advised her to keep an icebag continuously over her injured eye. T...

BACKGROUND Ocular myocysticercosis is rare and a high index of suspicion is required for its diagnosis. OBJECTIVE To describe clinical characteristics and treatment outcome of ocular myocysticercosis. CASES We describe a series of three patients who had different clinical presentations of ocular myocysticerocosis namely diplopia, restricted ocular motility and sub-conjunctival cyst. The tre...