PURPOSE To report a case of atopic eyelid disease treatment using topical tacrolimus in a patient with open-angle glaucoma following corticosteroid discontinuation. DESIGN Interventional case report. METHODS A 59-year-old white man with a history of treated open-angle glaucoma (latanoprost 0.005%) was referred to our department for atopic eyelid disease. The patient had received previous tr...

Topical immunotherapy is effective for severe alopecia areata. However, there are patients with alopecia areata refractory to topical immunotherapy alone. We tried SADBE (squaric acid dibutylester) topical immunotherapy combined with topical dry ice cryotherapy, carpronium chloride (a parasympathetic nerve stimulant) and/or oral cepharanthin (a biscoclaur alkaloid) in alopecia areata refractory...

purpose: to investigate the efficacy of topical cyclosporine a 2% in treating and preventing recurrent graft rejection episodes after penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) in patients with history of previous rejection episodes. methods: in this clinical trial, eligible pkp patients were randomly given topical cyclosporine a 2% or placebo in addition to a standard corticosteroid regimen for an episode...

This study examined the effects of topical lidocaine on reported pain by patients who underwent needle wire localization (NWL) prior to breast biopsy. Patients typically report sensations of discomfort that range from moderate to intense pain. The purpose of this study was to compare a topical lidocaine anesthetic preparation with no topical substance in reducing reported pain by women undergoi...

TOPICAL DIAGNOSIS OF OPTIC CHIASMAL LESIONS TOPICAL DIAGNOSIS OF RETROCHIASMAL VISUAL FIELD Visual Field Defects DEFECTS Etiologies of the Optic Chiasmal Syndrome Topical Diagnosis of Optic Tract Lesions Masqueraders of the Optic Chiasmal Syndrome Topical Diagnosis of Lesions of the Lateral Geniculate Body Pathophysiology of the Optic Chiasmal Syndrome Topical Diagnosis of Lesions of the Optic ...

BACKGROUND Several local anaesthetic techniques are available for cataract surgery. Recently, topical anaesthesia has gained in popularity. A randomized trial was designed to compare patient discomfort and intraoperative complications following routine cataract surgery under topical or sub-Tenon's anaesthesia. METHODS A randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial of 210 patien...

137 The goal of any surgical or aesthetic procedure is to leave no scarring. For this, it is essential that wound healing should be optimised so that the skin heals without scars and as quickly as possible. A lot of research has been done on wound healing, but how much of this translates into actual clinical results remains to be seen. Two reviews in this issue focus on these aspects of wound h...

This year, the SICS team decided to concentrate on query processing and on the internal topical structure of the query: we have identified this as one of the major bottlenecks for cross-lingual access systems. Previous years, the SICS team has investigated, among other issues, how to translate compounds. Compound translation is non-trivial due to dependencies between compound elements and has b...