in ordere to determine the prognosis of perforating eye injuries caused hy bb guns in our patients, the visual and anatomic results of 14 patients with gun injuries seen between september 1996 and february 1998 in farafti hospital and private office in tehran were reviewed. five patients liad nonn erf orating eye injuries. all perforated eyes underwent scleral buckling, tenseclomy, vitrectomy a...

PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and performance of a second-generation device for CO2 laser-assisted sclerectomy surgery system in experimental models. MATERIALS AND METHODS Laser-assisted deep sclerectomy using a modified CO2 laser system (OT-134-"IOPtiMate"; IOPtima Ltd, Israel) was performed in 3 experimental models: enucleated pig eyes, human cadaver eyes, and live rabbit eyes. A half-thic...

A 3-year-old boy presented with history of trauma to the left eye after he accidentally injured his eye with a broom stick made up from coconut skewers. There was history of cats as their pets but not dogs. Ocular examination revealed left superonasal conjunctival laceration and scleral perforation with prolapsed vitreous. Fundus examination showed minimal vitreous haemorrhage and flat retina. ...

The article reports a case and review of the literature of endophthalmitis presenting as isolated retinal vasculitis. A 26-year-old male was observed to have white-centered retinal hemorrhages and retinal vasculitis following an occult scleral perforation. At presentation, the visual acuity was 20/60. With clinical suspicion of early endophthalmitis, he underwent wound exploration, scleral tear...

AIMS To comprehensively study the gross anatomy of human corneal innervation. METHODS Twenty-one specimens, including 12 normal human corneas from seven deceased patients, two eye-bank corneo-scleral buttons, two eye-bank corneo-scleral rims and five post-surgical specimens from three patients with keratoconus were studied. Corneal whole mounts were stained for cholinesterase enzyme using the...

A routine eye examination of a 69-year-old man revealed a scleral perforation of one of the haptics of the anterior chamber intraocular lens (AC IOL) which had been implanted many years ago. The patient was asymptomatic with good visual acuity. His history was negative for any trauma, eye rubbing, topical corticosteroid use, or autoimmune disease. The horizontal and vertical white-to-white diam...

VAN DER HOEVE (1931), basing his observations on two cases, drew attention to a condition characterized by the spontaneous appearance of scleral perforations, which he named scleromalacia perforans. A somewhat similar case had previously been described by Holthouse (1893), and Kuhnt (1912) reported a case of scleral perforation associated with hydroa vacciniforme. Under the term scleritis necro...