Ocular enucleation produces significant morphological and physiological changes in central visual areas. However, our knowledge of the molecular events resulting from eye enucleation in visual brain areas remains elusive. We characterized here the transcription nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) activation induced by ocular enucleation in the rat superior colliculus (SC). We also tested the effecti...

We observed a young woman who showed growth of a choroidal melanoma over the course of 2 pregnancies, with subsequent enucleation of the eye. This is the first such documented case. In addition 4 other women with uveal malignant melanomas presented during pregnancy. This observed number of pregnancies (5) was greater than the expected number (2.1) among women of childbearing age who underwent e...

Enucleation or triple dislocation of the talus is a rare injury; in literature, it represents 2 to 10% of the talar trauma. The prognosis for this type of injury is dominated by the risk of osteonecrosis. We report a case of closed enucleation of the talus, treated in a conservative manner with satisfactory functional outcome. It's a patient of 32 years, victim of a road traffic accident that r...

A 32 year old man, right-handed soldier, was admitted to Emergency Department two hours after undergoing right wrist injury following a 2 meter fall onto the hand, in hyperextension. Clinical examination revealed a deformity of the wrist with an obvious open lunate enucleation (A). The neurovascular status was intact. Standard radiograph of the wrist demonstrated a completely enucleated lunate,...

BACKGROUND Video assisted thoracoscopic resection of an esophageal leiomyoma offers distinct advantages over an open approach. Many papers have described various techniques of thoracoscopic resection. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a 32-year old man who presented with intermittent dysphagia. Imaging studies showed a large esophageal leiomyoma. He underwent thoracoscopic enucleation using a thr...

AIM To evaluate tumour angiogenesis as a predictor of prognosis in retinoblastoma. METHODS This was a retrospective, non-randomised comparative clinicopathological study. The histopathology from 24 cases of Reese-Ellsworth (RE) group V unilateral retinoblastoma treated by enucleation alone was reviewed. Group I consisted of five patients (four RE group Vb and one group Va) who developed disse...

PURPOSE To evaluate the hypothesis that the expression of the calcium-binding protein parvalbumin (PV) in a subpopulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic neurons is an appropriate molecular marker for the effect on ocular dominance plasticity of monocular deprivation during the postnatal sensitive period. METHODS Long-Evans rats underwent monocular enucleation immediately before eye op...

PURPOSE To study possible causes of persistent pain in patients who underwent enucleation of the globe and in whom all other noninvasively detectable causes of pain had been ruled out. METHODS Twenty patients were studied, 10 with intractable pain (score >5 on a 0-to-9 self-reporting pain scale) persisting for more than 6 months after enucleation (for various reasons) and 10 without pain (sco...

Self-enucleation or oedipism is a term used to describe self-inflicted enucleation. It is a rare form of self-mutilation, found mainly in acutely psychotic patients. We propose the term incomplete oedipism to describe patients who deliberately and severely mutilate their eyes without proper enucleation. We report the case of a 32-year-old male patient with a five-year history of psychotic depre...

Conventional surgical approach for cyst enucleation is removal of buccal compact bone plate, which often results in remarkable bone loss and subsequent mucosal recession. This report presents one case of residual mandibular cyst enucleation and one case of apicoectomized mandibular molar, both treated with the bony lid approach. A window of buccal compact bone was precisely created using an ele...