A 6-year-old boy was referred to our hospital with symblepharon and lateral canthal deformity in both eyes, which developed 6 years ago. The patient was born at 27 weeks gestation. He had received cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity. One month after cryotherapy, he developed a conjunctival scar with symblepharon in both eyes and underwent symblepharon lysis at another hospital 5 years pr...

T.K.M. a 50-year old Chinese male presented in March 1985 with a four-year history of multiple pigmented growths in the left conjunctiva. Examination showed a main pedunculated pigmented conjunctival growth of 1.5cm x 1.0cm in size with increased vaseularity and irregular surface at the left upper tarsal conjunctiva (Fig. 1) and a few other scattered lesions over the bulbar and the limbal conju...

PURPOSE To report a case of conjuctival leiomyoma. CASE REPORT An 18-year-old female patient presented with a conjunctival growth in the left eye for a 2-year-period with no change in size. She merely presented for cosmetic reasons. Visual acuity was 20/20 in each eye. The lesion had prominent vessels and was not adherent to the sclera. The growth resembled a benign lesion of the conjunctiva....

Objective: To determine and compare the mast cell count in primary and recurrent vascularized pterygium, and in normal bulbar conjunctiva. Methods: The study included 22 patients with primary pterygium (PP group) and 28 patients with vascularized recurrent pterygium (VRP group) that underwent excision via the limbal conjunctival autograft technique. Normal conjunctiva samples were collected fro...

BACKGROUND Conjunctival mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is a rare, low-grade, non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma. Herein, we report our successful management of the large conjunctival defect caused by resection of conjunctival MALT lymphoma by covering it with transplanted amniotic membrane. CASE A 28-year-old Japanese man, who had been diagnosed histologically as having conjunct...

Conjunctival plasmacytomas are rare tumours that may be solitary or related with multiple myeloma (MM), a malignant systemic plasma cell neoplasm tends to metastasize. Plasma infiltration of bone marrow and presence immunoglobulin is characteristic MM. It cause extraskeletal spread being the ocular tissue involvement very rare. We report case 57-year-old male patient affected caruncular mass ha...

A clinicopathological correlation was performed on 24 patients suffering from keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS). Examination of conjunctival biopsies by light and transmission electron microscopy revealed stratification of the conjunctival epithelium with separation of the superficial cell layers, and this was directly proportional to the clinical severity of the disease. Counts of goblet cells ...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we have developed and optimised a novel gelatin-chitosan (GC) substrate for use as a cellular carrier for tissue-engineered conjunctival epithelium. MATERIALS AND METHODS The substrate was fabricated by casting and the mechanical properties of the substrate, including tensile strength and elongation, were measured. Using the MTT, cell proliferation assay with rabbi...

More than 50% of the nontypeable (NT) pneumococcal strains received in our laboratory for reference purposes are isolated in sporadic cases of conjunctivitis. To determine the genetic structure of the population of these NT conjunctival strains, we analyzed 75 pneumococci (40 NT and 35 typeable) isolated from conjunctivas and 30 (15 NT and 15 typeable) isolated from other sources. The NT and ty...