purpose: to present the success of novel method for management of conjunctival orbital inclusion cysts following enucleation after using trichloroacetic acid injection technique. methods: a 20% tca solution was injected to treat 6 cases of orbital conjuctival cyst in anophthalmic socket. results: all the patients were treated successfully. the follow-up interval was 1-7 years. no recurrence or ...

AIMS To characterise the vasculature of pterygium using indocyanine green (ICG) anterior segment angiography and to demonstrate the pattern of revascularisation following conjunctival autografting. METHODS ICG anterior segment angiography was performed on nine patients with pterygium. Angiography was repeated at 1-2 weeks and 2 months following conjunctival autografting in these patients. R...

OBJECTIVE To compare the recurrence of pterygium between free conjunctival auto-graft and conjunctival rotation flap following simple surgical excision of pterygium. STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Shifa Foundation Community Health Clinic, Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, from January to November 2012. METHODOLOGY Fifty seven cases aged above 18 yea...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare inflammatory events and graft characteristics 1 month and 6 months after conjunctival limbal autograft (CLAU) with and without intraoperative mitomycin C (MMC). METHODS This study included 69 eyes of 69 patient's eyes with pterygium. Clinical data concerning patient demography, preoperative examination including pterygium morphology, recurrence...

The discovery of frank bleeding from the conjunctiva, apart from injury, is a relatively rare condition, but it is not infrequent to find a sanguinous discharge in cases of severe inflammation of the conjunctiva. The various causes of bleeding from the conjunctiva are vicarious menstruation, haemophilia, anaemia, jaundice, vascular tumours, bleeding from the lacrimal gland, regurgitation of blo...

Sometimes intraorbital foreign bodies lead to unexpected findings. A 16-year old boy was referred due to ocular surface trauma. A conjunctival laceration was detected at the level of the left caruncle with associated left exotropia, reduced adduction as well as a preretinal hemorrhage along the nasal periphery of the fundus. A blow-out fracture of the medial orbital wall was suspected and a CT ...

This case report describes a female toddler with manifestations of ocular leech infestation. A 2-year-old girl was brought to our outpatient clinic with a complaint of irritable crying after being taken to a stream in Hualien 1 day previous, where she played in the water. The parents noticed that she rubbed her right eye a lot. Upon examination, the girl had good fix and follow in either eye. S...

The signs of bleb failure include sub conjunctival cyst disappearance, increased vascularity, decreasing area of bleb and elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) [6]. Those patients at high risk of bleb failure are Africans, with previous ocular inflammation, prolonged topical medication (miotics and sympathomimetics) and aphakia. As there were a great tendency to subconjunctival, episcleral and sc...

Based on previous findings that ozone can induce an inflammatory response in the ocular surface of an animal model and in cultured human conjunctival epithelial cells, we investigated whether exposure to ozone exacerbates symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis. We evaluated the effects of exposure to ozone on conjunctival chemosis, conjunctival injection, corneal and conjunctival fluorescein stain...

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate whether conjunctival flora is different in patients with chronic renal disease (CR) among its subgroups and healthy subjects.
 Methods: A total of 105 adult CR patients; 35 hemodialysis (HD), diabetic (DHD), transplantation (RT), 40 subjects were enrolled. After ophthalmologic examination, a swab was taken from the lower fornix right eye using cotto...