Oculoplastics News

Only one recurrence in 40 patients was observed at 8 months after staged excision of periocular cutaneous melanoma by the square procedure.

Ocular motility, diplopia and frequency of strabismus surgery postoperatively were comparable in patients undergoing repair of orbital fracture within 14 days of trauma and in those undergoing surgery 15 to 29 days after trauma.

WAILEA, Hawaii — The Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study is applicable to the general population that falls within its parameters, a surgeon said here.

WAILEA, Hawaii — Intermittent testing after ocular tumor removal does not affect long-term life expectancy for patients who experience metastasis, but rather puts the patient and physician under unnecessary strain, a speaker said here.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In his initial experience with Gamma Knife surgery, a surgeon showed efficacy in treating ocular tumors that would have otherwise required enucleation.

A collagen-chondroitin scaffold was shown to be a reliable substrate for the development of an artificially reconstructed cornea.

Prevalence of amblyopia is higher among pediatric patients with ptosis than in the general population, and surgical correction of the lid resulted in resolution of some cases of amblyopia, according to a study.

Careful postoperative monitoring is necessary in patients with poor Bell's phenomenon in whom frontalis suspension surgery has induced lagophthalmos.

ATLANTA — While many individuals play a role in setting patient expectations with ocular prosthesis procedures, ophthalmologists and ocularists should provide as much information as possible to patients to help avoid dissatisfactory results, an ocularist said.

Epithelial thickness is uneven across the cornea, according to a recent study in which VHF digital ultrasound was used to measure epithelial thickness. Dan Z. Reinstein The epithelium was thicker in the inferior and nasal areas than in the superior and temporal areas, Dan Z. Reinstein, MD, and colleagues reported in the Journal of Refractive Surgery.