We report a case of surgical treatment for Hallermann-Streiff syndrome in a patient with ocular manifestations of esotropia, entropion, and blepharoptosis. A 54-year-old man visited Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital complaining of ocular discomfort due to cilia touching the corneas of both eyes for several years. He had a bird-like face, pinched nose, hypotrichosis of the scalp, mandibular hypoplasia...

Introduction: A low iodine diet (LID) is recommended prior to the Radioactive Iodine-131 (RAI) treatment or scanning in differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) post total thyroidectomy. However, recommended strictness of LID is varying among major guidelines. This study was aim to investigate the patient’s compliance to LID by measuring the urinary iodine level post LID. <...

A married female, aged 34, came to the London Jewish Hospital over 22 years ago with trachoma and pannus crassus of the right eye. Treatment by the ordinary methods was unsuccessful and consequently the operation of transplanting mucous membrane of the lip on to the eye (Denig's operation), was performed. For cosmetic reasons the mucous membrane graft was placed 2 or 3 mm. above the corneal lim...

Here, a case of vision threatening blepharokeratoconjunctivitis that responded well to topical cyclosporin is reported. A 9-year-old Malay girl with a history of bilateral blepharokeratoconjunctivitis was regularly treated with lid scrubbing using diluted baby shampoo, fusidic acid gel, and topical steroids as well as an intermittent course of oral doxycycline for the past year. She developed a...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of Demodex in eyelashes with cylindrical dandruff (CD). METHODS A modified sampling and counting method was applied to 55 clinical cases. Patients were divided in to group A (n = 20) with diffuse CD, group B (n = 12) with sporadic CD, and group C (n = 23) with clean lashes or greasy scales, of which the latter was divided into subgroup C1 (n = 15) without l...

History.?He had a severe attack of purulent ophthalmia with considerable tumefaction of both upper lids, a couple of months previous to date, which was treated with instillation of native drugs. A week after the commencement of the treatment, the upper lid of right eye got everted and remained strangulated in that position by muscular spasm; and in three more days, the left eye was similarly af...

I am a 24 year old female, and I would consider myself to be a very anxious person (and have always been that way). For the past few months, I have been experiencing a problem with an eyelid spasm. It's always my right eye, and the lid flutters up and down a lot, sometimes lasting for a few days. It doesn't hurt, but is very annoying! I've had people tell me that it's due to stress and/or lack ...

I am a 24 year old female, and I would consider myself to be a very anxious person (and have always been that way). For the past few months, I have been experiencing a problem with an eyelid spasm. It's always my right eye, and the lid flutters up and down a lot, sometimes lasting for a few days. It doesn't hurt, but is very annoying! I've had people tell me that it's due to stress and/or lack ...

A x6-year-old girl was admitted to Bristol Eye Hospital in May, I968. For the previous 3 days there had been a painful swelling of the right eyelids associated with a vesicular eruption of the margin of the right upper lid, and shortly before admission some vesicles appeared at the angle of the mouth. The girl's boy-friend had noticed a "cold sore" on his lip i I days previously. The patient ha...