WHO has recently launched a programme (GET 2020) for the elimination of trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. GET 2020 has adopted the SAFE strategy, a comprehensive set of control measures (Surgery for entropion/trichiasis; Antibiotics for infectious trachoma; Facial cleanliness to reduce transmission; Environmental improvements such as control of disease-spreading flies and ac...

cancer of the eyelid, entropion and ectropion, peritomy, subacute inflammation of the ciliary choroid, recurrent iritis, glaucoma, and iridectomy. The author tells us that " the prodromata of increased intraocular tension are often disregarded by patient and practitioner, or, if noticed, their significance and dangers are not appreciated by the latter. The occurrence of distinct remission durin...

IN February, 1931, an article describing an operation for entropion by Sie-Boen-Lian appeared in the Klinische MIonatsblitter fuir Atugentheilkitutde. It so happened that Dr. J. David, who was not an ophthalmic specialist but a general practitioner, had several years before shown me a copy of an article of his own on this very subject. I therefore drew his attention to Sie-Boen-Lian's communica...

ALTHOUGH a very rare condition, a case of congenital eversion of the upper eyelids has recently been ieported from America by Ostriker and Lasky (1954) and Hopen (1955). I have not been able to find any case report in the British literature over the last 20 years. Mann (1937) mentions that congenital entropion and ectropion of the lids are extremely rare. DukeElder (1952) mentions that the lid ...

To explore the efficacy of modified shortening levator palpebrae superioris muscle on patients with ptosis. A total 78 mild or moderate ptosis admitted to our hospital were enrolled and assigned a control group an observation group. Patients in treated frontalis suspension those two groups was compared. The effective correction rate significantly higher than that ( 92.59 % vs. 78.72 %) at 1st 7...