PURPOSE Retinoblastoma is a rare eye cancer that generally occurs before 5 years of age and often results in enucleation (surgical removal) of the cancerous eye. In the present study, we sought to determine the consequences of early monocular enucleation on the morphological development of the anterior visual pathway including the optic chiasm and lateral geniculate nucleus. METHODS A group o...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the mentor-based learning curve of one single surgeon with transurethral plasmakinetic enucleation and resection of prostate (PKERP) prospectively. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ninety consecutive PKERP operations performed by one resident under the supervision of an experienced endourologist were studied. Operations were analyzed in cohorts of 10 cases to determine when a platea...

PURPOSE To determine ocular survival and factors affecting globe survival in patients diagnosed with retinoblastoma at King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC). METHODS A retrospective review of medical records of 71 Jordanian patients (45 males and 26 females) diagnosed with retinoblastoma (114 eyes) between June 2003 and May 2013 was conducted. Patient sociodemographic and relevant characteristics...

Panophthalmitis is the most extensive ocular involvement in endophthalmitis with inflammation in periocular tissues. Severe inflammation of the anterior and posterior segments is frequently accompanied by corneal opacity, scleral abscess, and perforation or rupture. Enucleation or evisceration was the only remaining viable treatment option when all options to salvage the eye had been exhausted....

PURPOSE To measure the volume of the anophthalmic orbit in adults who had undergone enucleation during infancy and to determine its growth. METHODS The orbital volume in 5 adults who had undergone unilateral enucleation during infancy without an orbital implant was measured on x-ray computed tomography images. Comparisons were made between the anophthalmic and normal sides. In addition, we ev...

Background Side-branch intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas have a low malignant potential, usually treated by pancreatic resection. Less invasive surgery, including enucleation, has been introduced for management of benign intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms to decrease postoperative mortality and morbidity. This study aimed to compare enucleation to pancreatic resecti...

PURPOSE To determine the predictive factors for postoperative urinary incontinence (UI) following holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) during the initial learning period. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated 127 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia who underwent HoLEP between January 2011 and December 2013. We recorded clinical variables, including blood loss, serum prostate-s...

Strabismus induces an abnormal pattern of alternating light and dark columns of cytochrome oxidase (CO) activity in macaque striate cortex. This pattern may arise because visual perception is suppressed in one eye to avoid diplopia. To test whether CO activity is reduced in the ocular dominance columns of the suppressed eye, we performed monocular enucleation to co-label the ocular dominance co...

Background. Enucleation is a psychologically and physically traumatic event associated with chronic pain. It would be desirable to better predict which patients will have pain after surgery. Methods. A cross-sectional postal questionnaire study of adults undergoing enucleation captured the demographic details, Pain Quality Assessment Scale (PQAS), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), and the Facia...

Objectives: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects approximately 50% of men over the age of 50 and 88% of men in their 80s, often leading to a decrease in quality of life and ultimately requiring treatment. Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) has been suggested as the gold standard for surgical treatment for BPH. Multiple technological advances have been made over the last sev...