Annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma is a condition characterized histologically by damaged elastic fibers associated with preponderance of giant cells along with absence of necrobiosis, lipid, mucin, and pallisading granuloma. It usually occurs on sun-damaged skin and hence the previous name actinic granuloma. A similar process occurs on the conjunctiva. Over the past three decades only fo...

Spontaneous conjunctival folliculosis, a disease widespread among rabbits, has been described in a preceding article (1) as occurring in two clinical forms, Type I and Type II . The former is characterized by a dormant chronicity with discrete lesions, whereas the second type, a more act ively progressive disease, presents an inf lammatory follicular reaction involving all the palpebral conjunc...

UNLABELLED Melanocytic nevi are the most common tumors of the conjunctiva, accounting for 28% of all neoplastic lesions. These tumors, despite their benign behavior, share some atypical histological features with nevi found in other anatomic sites like the genital and acral regions, globally designated as nevi with site-related atypia. Moreover, in children and adolescents, rapidly growing conj...

CC (6/20/96): Red, itchy eyes, whitish discharge x 6 weeks HPI: A 74 year old retired policeman noticed red, itchy eyes associated with whitish discharge that worsened over the past six weeks. Two weeks later, the patient consulted his ophthalmologist, who treated him antibiotic eye drops without a favorable response. The patient did not respond to the antibiotic and states he was biopsied. He ...

INTRODUCTION Conjunctival metastasis is exceedingly rare, and it is, as a rule, a sign of advanced malignant disease with poor prognosis. We presented a female patient with breast cancer metastasis to the conjunctiva. CASE REPORT A 45-year-old premenopausal female patient was presented with a solitary, yellowish, thin, demarcated lesion in the superior nasal quadrant of the bulbar conjunctiva...

1. Conjunctival tissue derived from alien and native American white persons in New York City, having trachoma in an advanced stage, has been used successfully to induce in Macacus rhesus monkeys characteristic granular conjunctivitis. The transfer of infection was effected either by a single subconjunctival injection, or by repeated swabbing with conjunctival secretions. 2. Pathogenic strains o...

purpose: to investigate the efficacy of limbal-conjunctival autografting technique in patients with primary pterygium methods: fifteen eyes of 15 patients with primary pterygium underwent surgery for the removal of pterygium with limbal-conjunctival autograft. after the pterygium excision, the limbal portion of the graft was oriented and sutured to the limbus at the recipient bed with the epith...

Spontaneous conjunctival folliculosis, a disease widespread among rabbits, has been described in a preceding article (1) as occurring in two clinical forms, Type I and Type II . The former is characterized by a dormant chronicity with discrete lesions, whereas the second type, a more act ively progressive disease, presents an inf lammatory follicular reaction involving all the palpebral conjunc...

The general pathological and ocular studies in an aborted fetus with type II glycogenosis revealed the widespread lysosomal storage of glycogen. Obvious lesions are observed in the viscera, in the skeletal and ocular muscles, and in all ocular tissues except the pigment epithelium of the retina. Brain and heart are relatively spared. Conjunctival and skin biopsies have a diagnostic importance, ...

The histological features of 234 conjunctival biopsies from Africans in Malawi have been re-examined. The appearances of solar keratosis, pinguecula, and pterygium are presented as part of a continuous spectrum of the same pathological process and aetiology, which may lead to carcinomatous change. The results are discussed with regard to the specific geographical distribution of such lesions ...