BACKGROUND Many methods have been proposed for the correction of sunken upper eyelids. These methods include surgical treatments, such as micro-fat, dermofat, or fascia-fat grafts, or the use of alloplastic materials. Here, we present our experience of sunken upper eyelid correction involving the simple addition of anchoring the central fat pad to the medial fat pad during upper blepharoplasty....

BACKGROUND Protrusion of the lower eyelid is an aesthetic condition that is influenced by many anatomical features. Aim is to identify and categorize fat pad protrusion under the lower eyelids, and to evaluate the scoring system for determining the anatomical characteristics that will yield optimal surgical results. MATERIAL AND METHODS During a six year period (2000-2005) we operated 42 pati...

WITH the exception of leukaemia, neuroblastoma sympatheticum is the most frequently occurring malignant neoplasm in infancy and childhood (Bodian and White, 1952). It is classified with neurological tumours, because it originates from tissue which gives rise to the adrenal medulla and portions of the sympathetic system. The most common single site is the adrenal medulla (Willis, 1960), but it c...

The supervision of people in special circumstances, having as their purpose detecting risk situations, is an area which has many applications. In this context we are interested, in this paper, the problems of driver drowsiness detection based on video analysis. We describe a new approach to detect reduced alertness automatically, to prevent the driver. Unlike many other works, our noninvasively...

BACKGROUND Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) is an uncommon benign lesion, primarily occurring in the head and neck. ALHE arising from the ocular adnexa is rare, and the bilateral presentation is especially rare in the eyelids. CASE PRESENTATION A 64-year-old Japanese man presented with tearing. Multiple nodules, approximately 5 mm in size, were observed in bilateral upper an...

The nomenclature of each part of the lacrimal canaliculus, for example the vertical portion, does not always reflect the true course. Since we have sometimes observed findings suggesting the so called vertical portion of the lower lacrimal canaliculus inclined laterally, we re-examined the course of the vertical portion. Twenty-eight postmortem lower eyelids in 16 Japanese were examined and div...

PURPOSE To examine inferior displacement of the lower eyelid during eye closing in intraoperative quantification of blepharoptosis surgery. METHODS A series of lower eyelid movements during eye closing in intraoperative quantification of blepharoptosis surgery were examined in 30 eyelids of 15 patients (6 males and 9 females; mean age 70.0 years; range 43-81 years) with bilateral aponeurotic ...