Accepted 12 December 1995 A 45-year-old woman presented with a left upper eyelid mass, first noticed five years earlier. The mass had been excised initially but recurred within nine months. For the last year, the patient had noticed a painless, progressively increasing swelling in the left parotid region. Examination revealed a 3 x 2 cm nontender mass in the left upper eyelid with conjunctival ...

Conjunctival mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a very rare but highly aggressive conjunctival neoplasm with 42 previously reported cases. We report the case of a 56-year-old male with a left ocular surface squamous neoplasm, which was subsequently treated with excision and autoconjunctival graft. Histopathology of the operative specimen reported a low-grade conjunctival mucoepidermoid carcinoma, and ...

The recent development of a technique for quantitative measurement of conjunctival microvascular permeability has permitted detailed pharmacological evaluation of H1- and H2-receptor involvement in histamine-induced increases in conjunctival microvascular permeability and the role of histamine in microvascular permeability changes associated with immediate hypersensitivity responses in the conj...

RESULTS. Compared with the control, increased accumulations of type I and type III collagens were detected by immunohistochemistry in fibrotic conjunctiva of patients with OCP. Weak and sparse expression of HSP47 was detected in the epithelial cells and stromal fibroblasts in control conjunctival tissues. In contrast to the control, the expression of HSP47 was markedly increased in the stromal ...

Conjunctival amyloidosis is a very rare disease, and its presence may be a sign of systemic amyloidosis. We present our ocular and systemic findings in a patient with conjunctival amyloidosis. A 43-year-old man had repeated subconjunctival hemorrhages (SCHs) for two years and was referred to the Chiba University Hospital. He had comprehensive ophthalmological and systemic examinations to determ...

Subgroup D adenovirus (Ad) types 8, 19, and 37 (Ad8, -19, and -37, respectively) are causative agents of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and genital tract infections. Previous studies showed that Ad37 binds to a 50-kDa membrane glycoprotein expressed on human ocular (conjunctival) cells. To identify and characterize the role of the 50-kDa glycoprotein in Ad37 infection, we partially purified this...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To describe the ophthalmic and pathological features of a conjunctival tumour in a 76-year-old male with terminal pleural mesothelioma who developed a rapidly growing mass on the bulbar conjunctiva. PROCEDURES The patient presented with a rapidly growing, pink nodule on the right nasal bulbar conjunctiva. His past medical history included biopsy-confirmed pleural malignan...

PURPOSE We report on the histopathology and clinical features of 21 cases of feline conjunctival melanoma. METHODS A total of 18 cases are from the COPLOW collection and three cases from Antech Diagnostics. We tabulated the location of the tumor, pigmentation, cell shape, mitotic index and presence of multinucleated tumor cells. Surveys were sent to referring ophthalmologists to obtain furthe...

purpose: to determine the prevalence of various types of conjunctival lesions, at a tertiary ophthalmic center in fars province, south of iran. methods: histopathologic slides and medical records of conjunctival lesions submitted to the pathology department of khalili hospital, shiraz, iran was reviewed from april, 2009 to july, 2013. the histopathologic diagnoses were categorized into benign, ...

purpose : to evaluate the efficiency and safety of using autologous fibrin glue for attachment of a conjunctival autograft in primary pterygium surgery methods : in this prospective interventional case series, 15 eyes from 13 patients with primary nasal pterygium were included for conjunctival autograft surgery. on the operation day, thrombin and fibrinogen were prepared from the patient’s own ...