PURPOSE The myotoxic drug doxorubicin can treat blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm permanently when injected directly into the eyelid of patients. One side effect of this treatment is the dose-related occurrence of injury to the skin overlying the injection site. The purpose of this study was to determine if injection of the immunosuppressive agent cyclosporin into rabbit eyelids before doxorub...

Eyelid injuries are a common emergency room challenge in patients presenting with history of road traffic accidents. Overzealous debridement can result in tissue loss in which primary repair becomes impossible along with loss of critical landmarks especially in tissue as fragile as the eyelids. We present a 45-year-old male with avulsion injury of the right lower eyelid compounded by debridemen...

Apraxia of eyelid opening (AEO) is a syndrome characterized by the patient's difficulty in initiating eyelid elevation spontaneously. Most of the reported cases were associated with extrapyramidal diseases. We report a case of AEO presented after traumatic brain injury, not with extrapyramidal diseases, and improved by dopaminergic treatment. A 49-year-old man underwent a traffic accident and w...

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...

Twenty-six patients with lesions of upper eyelids were treated with simple surgical excision under local anaesthesia as day cases. Three other patients with eyelid injuries had full-thickness margin-inclusive lacerations of upper eyelids. In all these 29 patients the upper eyelid wounds were allowed to heal solely by spontaneous repair. The cautious study began with small extramarginal skin exc...

We report a 48-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency room with right eyelid edema, with 3 days of evolution. She had suffered minor trauma to this eye one week before. She reported episodes of right eyelid swelling of spontaneous resolution since the occurrence of a traumatic brain injury 5 years ago. Ophthalmological examination showed a soft and painless eyelid edema of the r...

Eyelid or periocular wounds may be the only initial sign of occult, penetrating intracranial trauma. As in this case, the failure to recognize the injury may contribute to serious and potentially life-threatening complications. The discussion emphasizes that a high degree of suspicion and knowledge of patterns of occult penetrating orbito-cranial injury may help direct appropriate radiological ...

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...

We designed a study to determine if the repair of traumatic eyelid lacerations can be delayed to allow for the most appropriate setting and surgeon without increasing complications. We conducted a retrospective chart review of all eyelid lacerations treated by the Ophthalmology service at the Medical College of Wisconsin over a 38-month period and identified 143 patients. Of these, 92 (64.3%) w...