purpose: to evaluate changes in tear condition following unilateral ptosis surgery. methods: in this case series all patients with unilateral ptosis who underwent ptosis surgery over a two-year period were studied. the patients did not have history of previous eye surgery or other eye problems. eyelid and lacrimal evaluation included schirmer’s test with and without anesthesia and tear break up...

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was performed for 125 patients who presented to a University-based plastic surgery clinic seeking consultation for mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery between 2010 Jan and 2015 Apr. We obtained demographic data, body mass index (BMI), breast tissue weight, history of smoking, feeding and pregnancy. To measure the degree of ptosis, the vertical level of...

H. Aitken G. Gorman, MRCP R. McFarland, MRCPCH M. Roberts, FRCP R.W. Taylor, FRCPat D.M. Turnbull, FRCP SECTION 1 A 58-year-old woman presented to a neuroophthalmologist with a 5-year history of progressively blurred vision, diplopia, and longstanding bilateral ptosis. She described occasional choking episodes after eating as well as fatigue and shortness of breath after minimal exertion. Her o...

A frontal mucocele is an epithelium-lined, mucuscontaining cyst filling in the frontal sinus. It is capable of expansion to erode the surrounding structures, which may result in severe complications such as orbital infection or intracranial lesions. The clinical presentation of frontal mucoceles includes frontal headache, swelling of the upper eyelid, and ophthalmic symptoms, such as proptosis ...

The authors describe a one-step anterior approach levator resection technique with intraoperative adjustable sutures. Forty-four ptotic eyes were divided into five groups, and the results of this technique were evaluated for each of these five types of ptosis. Our results show that it is not possible to predict the extent of a levator resection preoperatively from the assessment of the levator ...

The aesthetic outcome of breast cancer treatment is an important factor in breast cancer survivors' quality of life. We investigated new quantitative, objective measurements of breast ptosis based on ratios of distances between fiducial points manually identified in oblique and lateral clinical photographs. Ptosis refers to the extent to which the nipple is lower than the inframammary fold. The...

Objective Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute weakness in children. It has multiple variant forms with different presentations. A rare initial sign is ptosis. In this study, we present a 10-year-old girl with bilateral ptosis without opthalmoplegia followed by a weakness in extremities with a favourable response to intravenous immunoglobulin. Due to the patient's ini...