Ocular cysticercosis is a preventable cause of blindness. Medical therapy has been recommended for the retro-orbital and extraocular muscle form. Surgical management largely done in cases with conjunctival or lid affliction. Though, medical simple; however, diagnosis challenging. The anterior segment findings often mimic more common pathologies hence missed at early stage. This case series 3 pe...

T.K.M. a 50-year old Chinese male presented in March 1985 with a four-year history of multiple pigmented growths in the left conjunctiva. Examination showed a main pedunculated pigmented conjunctival growth of 1.5cm x 1.0cm in size with increased vaseularity and irregular surface at the left upper tarsal conjunctiva (Fig. 1) and a few other scattered lesions over the bulbar and the limbal conju...

PURPOSE Pterygium is a vision-impairing fibrovascular lesion that grows across the corneal surface and is associated with sunlight exposure. To increase our understanding of the cells types involved in pterygium, we have used expressed sequence tag analysis to examine the transcriptional repertoire of isolated pterygium and to identify marker genes for tissue origin and cell migration. METHOD...

By reducing the dose of injected fluorescein its leakage from conjunctival and episcleral capillaries has been minimised. These vessels have been demonstrated with great clarity, and the venous circulation, previously obscured by extravascular fluorescein, has also been revealed. The anatomy of the anterior segment vessels, and the blood flow within them, has been studied in eight normal subjec...

We report our experience of a case in which a combination of conjunctival symblepharon detachment, conjunctival granuloma excision, and conjunctival free flap transplantation was performed for the treatment of symblepharon after pterygium surgery, with satisfactory outcomes. The patient was referred to our hospital with pterygium recurrence, symblepharon and granuloma formation after pterygiu...

PURPOSE To determine the location of conjunctival epithelial stem cells. METHODS Wistar rats received daily injection of 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) at a dose of 5 mg/100 g for 2 weeks followed by a 1-month BrdU-free period before death. After the rats were sacrificed, the orbital contents and eyelids were exenterated en bloc, fixed in buffer formalin, and embedded in paraffin. To compare t...

When the stem cells population is destroyed or their supporting stromal environment is dysfunctional, limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) manifests. Clinically, LSCD carries the hallmark of conjunctivalisation— that is, the corneal surface is covered by ingrowing conjunctival epithelium containing goblet cells. Conjunctivalisation is invariably associated with the destruction of the basement mem...