OBJECTIVE To compare Ligation under Vision (LUV) with Ferguson Hemorrhoidectomy (FH) in patients with Grade II, III and IV hemorrhoidal diseases according to their postoperative outcomes. METHODS Between July 2008 and August 2014, 155 patients underwent FH and 120 patients LUV, in Sakarya University Teaching and Research Hospital. Our retrospective analysis focuses on postoperative complicati...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this surgical procedure was to definitively correct severe recurrent upper and lower bilateral eyelid ectropion after 2 attempts with full-thickness skin grafts. It was necessary to repair all 4 eyelids with forehead skin. Middle lamella support was required. METHODS Bilateral median forehead flaps, which were well vascularized by the supratrochlear vessels, were chosen f...

INTRODUCTION Perianal giant condyloma acuminatum is a rare clinical condition related to human papillomavirus infection and characterized by a circumferential, exophytic, cauliflower-like mass with an irregular warty surface localized in the anal region. TECHNIQUE A circular incision with a diathermocoagulator was performed on macroscopically healthy skin, 1 cm from the margin of the lesion. ...

BACKGROUND Facial burns represent between one-fourth and one-third of all burns. The long-term sequelae of periorbital burns include significant ectropion and lagophthalmos as a result of secondary burn contractures in the lower and upper eyelids, in addition to complete or incomplete alopecia of the eyebrows. METHODS A retrospective study of 14 reconstructive procedures for 12 postburn faces...

right inferior canaliculus in a 77-year-old man [Fig. 1]. The lesion was previously subjected to biopsy by his dermatologist with histologic results of nodular BCC. Chronic epiphora was not noted. Syringing of the canaliculus by means of a cannula of 25 G showed patency of them. Total surgical excision would have caused a loss of the permeable canaliculus. Hence, intralesional treatment with re...