Five infants with biopsy proved juvenile xanthogranuloma of the iris were reviewed. Early treatment with subconjunctival injection ofsteroids and topical steroid drops resulted in regression of the lesion in four patients. One patient, reviewed at the age of 8 months after glaucoma which had developed secondary to the iris xanthogranuloma, had been treated by surgery alone: the visual outcome w...

A 19-year-old man was evaluated for extraction of third olar teeth. He was healthy with no history of medical roblems or bleeding disorders, and he was not taking any edications. The preoperative panoramic radiograph was nremarkable (Fig 1). He underwent uneventful extraction f all 4 impacted third molar teeth under local and deep onscious sedation. In the immediate postoperative period, while ...

Identification and analysis of antigen-activated lymphocytes from sites of ocular inflammation is important to understanding of the role of infiltrating immune effectors in ocular inflammatory disease. Unfortunately, few assays can distinguish activated lymphocytes from the antigen-irrelevant lymphocytes that randomly migrate to sites of inflammation. The authors describe a method that allows t...