We report a 71-year-old woman with concomitant ocular myasthenia gravis and euthyroid Graves' ophthalmopathy. Unilateral ophthalmoplegia, including ptosis, initially was responsive to edrophonium and corticosteroids, except for diplopia on upward gaze, but refractory swelling of the inferior rectus muscle and proptosis followed. Autoantibodies to acetylcholine and thyrotropin receptors were det...

Laparoscopic peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion is an established method for placement. One critical aspect of this procedure rectus sheath tunneling. Proper incorporation within the abdominal wall important reducing pericatheter leaks and proper functioning. Particularly, accurate positioning internal cuff muscle crucial to prevent potential dialysate fluid leakage. In present report, we d...

The study was undertaken to provide a more complete picture of donor-site morbidity following the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEAP) flap harvest in breast reconstruction. Most studies evaluating this subject have been performed using ultrasonography. Computed tomography (CT) might provide valuable information. METHODS In 14 patients who were reconstructed with a DIEAP flap, d...

Actinomycosis is a chronic; pseudotumoral with suppurated areas disease caused by an anaerobic grampositive organismand has been surnamed “the great mime” [1]. An 82 years old Caucasian female presented in our department with signs of a transverse colon tumor that appeared to infiltrate the left rectus muscle posterior sheet. CT scan, Barium enema, colonoscopy could not settle the diagnosis and...

Received: 25.12.2013; Revised: 25.03.2014; Accepted: 14.05.2014 Fig. 1: MRI shows enlarged hyperintense extraocular muscles (left superior rectus, inferior rectus and medial rectus) retinal vein or artery occlusion. Ocular tonometry showed intraocular pressure of 18 mm Hg. Magnetic resonance imag ing (MRI) showed en larged hyperintense extraocular muscles (left superior rectus, inferior rectus ...

PURPOSE To introduce myectomy of the lateral rectus muscle for correcting exotropia in patients with third nerve palsy. METHODS The lateral rectus muscle of the paretic eye was myectomized without suturing it to the globe. This was combined with a medial rectus muscle resection and a contralateral lateral rectus muscle recession. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed to observe the re-atta...

this study was conducted on 48 specimens of rectus abdominis muscles for recognition and definition of passage and ramification of lower intercostal nerves. the main results of this study are as follows: 1- the seventh and eight intercostal nerves penetrated to posterior layer of the rectus sheath while other intercostal nerves perforated to dorsal layer of internal oblique abdominis aponeurosi...