Preparation. The area of bulbar conjunctiva within the circumvallation was later removed en bloc with the 12 x 7 mm. area of sclera over the ciliary body. The bulbar conjunctiva was then incised just peripheral to the diathermy circumvallation and the incision was extended round the limbus to 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock. From each end radiating incisions 8 mm. long were made posteriorly. The conju...

Activity in horizontal rectus extraocular muscles (EOMs) was investigated by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of humans during asymmetric convergence to a monocularly aligned target at 15-cm distance or monocular fixation of afocal targets placed over a wide range of conjugate abduction through adduction. Cross sections and posterior partial volumes (PPVs) of EOMs were determined from quasi-cor...

A, 46-year-old Indian male, known hypertensive presented with left esotropia of 25  prism diopters (PD) after head injury in a roadside accident 9 months back. The deviation was constant in nature and was associated with complaints of diplopia in left lateral gaze. Traumatic sixth nerve palsy was diagnosed. The patient underwent left medial rectus recession of 5 mm and a split-tendon transposit...

OBJECTIVE To compare ultrasonography (US) to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the clinical activity score (CAS) in Graves' ophthalmopathy. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Nineteen patients underwent extraocular muscle thickness measurements by US and MRI, reflectivity by US and signal-intensity ratio by MRI. There were also twelve US control subjects. RESULTS US median thicknesses were greater tha...

1Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2The Hernia Center, 3Department of Surgery, Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Greenville, South Carolina, USA Correspondence: Dr James L Fowler, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, South Carolina 29605, USA. Telephone 864-455-7886, fax 864-455-1320, e-mail jfowler@...

In 1942, Szentagothai showed by means of a modified Horsley-Clarke stereotaxic in­ strument, and a technique of direct stimu­ lation of the oculomotor nerve nucleus that the representation of the striated ocular muscles within this nucleus for the cat and Pose· Com m. Fig. 1 (Danis). Functional organization of the third-nerve nucleus of the cat and the dog according to Szentagothai. the dog is ...

BACKGROUND The paranasal sinuses are intimately related to the orbit and consequently sinus disease or surgery may cause severe orbital complications. Complications are rare but can result in serious morbidity, the most devastating of which is severe visual loss. METHODS A retrospective review was undertaken of four cases of severe orbital trauma during endoscopic sinus surgery. RESULTS All...

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba Correspondence: Dr Edward W Buchel, University of Manitoba, GC 404, 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9. E-mail [email protected] The majority of autologous free flap breast reconstruction uses tissue from the lower anterior abdominal wall. Traditionally, this involved harvesting the entire ipsilateral or bilateral rectus abdominus muscles...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficiency of mitomycin C (MMC) in limiting the postoperative inflammatory response and scarring after strabismus surgery. METHODS A prospective, two-stage, masked, controlled trial was conducted. In the first stage, the inflammatory response at the extraocular muscle reattachment site was increased after inferior rectus recession in eight rabbits. In the second stage,...