PURPOSE To evaluate the progressive lesions affecting the visual system in a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). METHODS The authors observed a 15-year-old boy with SSPE. Since the diagnosis was made before the appearance of ocular manifestations, the authors recorded the progressive ocular lesions using various ophthalmic examinations. RESULTS The patient showed no oph...

Oculo-auriculo-vertebral (OAV) spectrum summarizes a continuum of ocular, auricular, and vertebral anomalies. Goldenhar syndrome is a variant of this spectrum and is characterized by pre-auricular skin tags, microtia, facial asymmetry, ocular abnormalities, and vertebral anomalies of different sizes and shapes. Most cases are thought to be sporadic. However, a few families were reported to have...

An orbital defect causes severe facial asymmetry and disfigurement that result in an immense emotional trauma to the patient and is also associated with economic, esthetic, and psychological problems. A prosthetic replacement is the treatment of choice in helping individual to return to his normal life by producing an acceptable and lifelike appearance. This case report describes the critical a...

Ocular and orbital disorders leading to surgical procedures which generally results in ocular defects, if immediate intervention are done to preserve the anophthalmic socket size and giving the conformers to the patient, might lead to contractures of tissue after the surgical procedures. As in most of the cases the conformers are not given, this leads to delayed collapse of space for ocular pro...