Of 50 patients attending the eye casualty department with a corneal foreign body (FB), 41 were able to say where they felt the FB and 78% of these were localised correctly for side or level of cornea. Patient handedness did not influence FB location. Indicating the upper lid was a particularly poor guide to localisation, whereas FB sensations within the palpebral fissure, in the lower lid or me...

A case of sporadic Burkitt lymphoma (sBL) presenting with jaw and lid involvement in a diabetic adult African American female and a review of adult orbital Burkitt lymphoma cases are presented. Lid edema, visual loss, ophthalmoparesis, proptosis, and sinusitis progressed over 4 weeks despite antibiotic and steroid treatment. Upper lid biopsy histopathological evaluation and immunophenotyping re...

New techniques are described and illustrated for ptosis and lid retraction surgery in which the sutures holding the upper eyelid position are adjustable postoperatively. In the anterior approach, the sutures pass from the levator muscle through the anterior surface of the tarsal plate at the position of the skin crease and are tied at the skin crease incision. In the posterior approach, the sut...

MOLLUSCUM contagiosum is a skin condition caused by a large virus. It may spread through public swimmling baths, infected garments, and contaminated cosmetics and fingers, and may involve the face, hands, and genitalia. When the lid margin is involved, particularly the upper lid, it induces conjunctivitis which is follicular in nature, and is sometimes accompanied by keratitis which may simulat...

Case 1, a female aged 38 years, had a partial congenital ptosis on the right side and an unduly wide palpebral fissure, amounting to a lid retraction, on the left (Fig. 1). Elevation of the right eye was completely absent and that of the left was markedly restricted (Fig. 2). On looking down, only the left eye moved downwards in a normal manner, while the right eye diverged (Fig. 3). The left u...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of location and size of chalazia on refractive error, corneal topography and visual acuity. methods: this randomized non-controlled clinical trial was conducted on patients with chalazion aged more than 3 years with minimum duration of one month. all patients underwent chalazion excision by the internal or external approach. results: two-hundred and fifty-three e...

Manual elevation secures a very pleasing effect and it is proposed to do a fascia lata graft to complete the plastic repair by elevating the canthus. The left eye was next operated on in june, 1942, this time by a pedicle graft from the upper lid inserted into the lower lid. The normal outer third of the lower lid with its eyelashes has not been removed, the fibrous band and notch only being ex...

Examination.-The visual acuity was 6/9 in each eye. Refraction under atropine revealed slight hypermetropia. Both fundi were normal. The movements of the eyes were full and the eyes were orthophoric on cover test. The action of the left superior rectus was normal. The child was attempting to correct the lid deformity by elevating the eyebrow. There was no evidence of jawwinking (Marcus Gunn phe...