The eyelid region is one of the most common sites for nonmelanoma skin cancers. In fact, skin cancers of the eyelid, including basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and melanoma, account for five to ten percent of all skin cancers. Ninety five percent of these tumors are basal cell carcinomas or squamous cell carcinomas [1,2]. A lower-eyelid reconstruction after cancer exti...

sharply in the Great Recession and increased slowly in the recovery so that in 2015, six years into the recovery, the employmentpopulation ratio was 3.6 points lower than in 2007.1 How did the U.S. labor market, widely viewed as the most marketdriven and flexible among advanced countries, weather the Great Recession and ensuing recovery? The preceding decades’ ballyhoo about the great American ...

PURPOSE To report our experience on lid reconstruction in patients with epitheliomas. METHODS A total of 41 consecutive patients affected by basal cell (n=32) or squamous cell carcinoma (n=9) underwent partial (n=35) or total (n=6) surgical demolition of the lower lid. Surgical defects<25% (n=10) received direct closure. If the defect involved 30-60% of the eyelid (n=21), a Tenzel semicircula...

INTRODUCTION The lateral tarsal strip procedure (LTS) was first reported by Anderson and Gordy in 1979 for the management of paralytic or senile eyelid laxity. Since its description, the LTS procedure has been subject to several modifications by various authors. In this study, we described the Looi suture technique, a small modification in the technique of suturing the LTS to the lateral orbita...

The bipalpebral flap (BPF) consists of two cutaneous flaps-a sliding flap from the lower lid and a rotating flap from the upper lid. These skin flaps are dissected from the orbicularis muscle with careful coagulation of all tiny bleeding vessels. Skin flaps were preferred to myocutaneous flaps because they allow a simpler surgical procedure. The principal advantage of this technique is that it ...

Total factor productivity—a measure of the efficiency with which labor and capital are used—has fallen during the current recession. But, after adjustment for lower utilization of labor and capital, such productivity has risen strongly over the past two years. These growth-accounting measures suggest that efficiency gains have continued during the recession, boding well for long-term economic g...

The inner border of the eyelid margin is critically important for ocular surface integrity because it guarantees the thin spread of the tear film. Its exact morphology in the human is still insufficiently known. The histology in serial sections of upper and lower lid margins in whole-mount specimens from 10 human body donors was compared to in vivo confocal microscopy of eight eyes with a Heide...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Despite the importance of a low-iodine diet (LID) for thyroid cancer patients preparing for radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy, few studies have evaluated dietary intake during LID. This study evaluated the amount of dietary iodine intake and its major food sources during a typical diet and during LID periods for thyroid cancer patients preparing for RAI therapy, and examine...

BACKGROUND The tear trough and the lid/cheek junction become more visible with age. These landmarks are adjacent, forming in some patients a continuous indentation or groove below the infraorbital rim. Numerous, often conflicting procedures have been described to improve the appearance of the region. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anatomy underlying the tear trough and the lid/ch...