purpose: to report a case of isolated eyelid pseudotumor. case report: a 40-year-old man presented with swelling and erythema of the right upper eyelid of 4 months duration. multiple topical and systemic antibiotics had been administrated without any response. incisional biopsy and evaluation of the lesion disclosed a diagnosis of eyelid pseudotumor. oral prednisolone was initiated and then tap...

purpose: to report a rare malignant melanoma with chalazion-like presentation.  case report: a 36-year old woman with a chalazion-like mass in the left upper lid, having been resected twice, was referred to our center for the management of recurrence. the total resection of the suspicious area was done. histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis of malignant melanoma. the appropriate r...

River deltas grow in large part through repeated cycles of lobe construction and channel avulsion. Understanding avulsion cycles is important for coastal restoration and ecology, land management, and flood hazard mitigation. Emerging theories suggest that river avulsions on lowland deltas are controlled by backwater hydrodynamics; however, our knowledge of backwater-controlled avulsion cycles i...

Complex facial injuries with soft tissue degloving and bony avulsion are very devastating to the patient. Partial degloving injuries are described but hemifacial degloving with zygoma avulsion are rare. The author presents a case of post-traumatic degloving of the left upper lip, nose, part of forehead, upper and lower eyelids and cheek with avulsion of the left zygoma. The management include...

Avulsion injury of the flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) with concomitant fracture of the distal phalanx dorsal base is uncommon. Simultaneous avulsion fractures of the insertion of this tendon associated with rupture of the tendon from the bony fragment and combination with dorsal base fracture is very rare and also complicated. A 36- year- old man fell and injured his right little finger. FDP ...

Injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament are commonly encountered in clinical practice, and occur in a wide variety of settings, from sports-related injuries to polytrauma. Tears of the anterior cruciate ligament supersede osseous avulsion in the adult demographic; however, in the pediatric population, osseous avulsion reflects the most frequent injury. When osseous avulsion of the anterior c...

BACKGROUND Ingrown toe nail is common problem presenting to the surgeon. Partial Nail avulsion only results in recurrence of the ingrown toe nail. The aim of this study was too see the effect of phenolization in preventing recurrence after partial nail avulsion. METHODS This was a randomized controlled trial carried out at Department of Surgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamab...

BACKGROUND We aimed to report our successful use of frontalis muscle flap suspension for the correction of congenital blepharoptosis in early age children. METHODS This retrospective study included 61 early age children (41 boys, 20 girls) with an average age of 6 years (range, 3-10 years) with congenital blepharoptosis who received surgery during the period from March 2007 to January 2011. T...