BACKGROUND To report a case of bilateral acute angle closure-glaucoma following the use of subcutaneous Tramadol. CASE PRESENTATION A 42-year-old healthy man with unremarkable past medical and ocular history, was admitted to the Orthopedic Department for surgical treatment of a bilateral open fracture of the femur following a road accident. Three hoursafterTramadolsubcutaneous injection, the ...

read with interest the article of Dr Asilian and coauthors entitled “Comparison between the efficacy of Q-Switched 1064-nm Nd:YAG laser and Fraxel CO2 laser on improvement of atrophic facial acne scars” in this journal. In this article the authors concluded a better efficacy for fractional CO2 laser in comparison with 1064-nm Q-switched NdYag laser.1 Treatment of the atrophic acne scars is a re...

In Pakistan, carcinoma of the esophagus ranks as the 5th commonest tumour in females and 9th in males. At our centre we see about 20-25 cases of malignant dysphagia each year. In most, the etiology is squamous cell carcinoma with only 2% occurrence of adenocarcinoma secondary to Barrett’s esophagus. Though surgical results with transhiatal esophagectomy have improved over the past decade with b...

Oesophageal carcinoma, accounting for approximately 10 deaths per 100,000 people annually, is a major health problem in the United Kingdom.' With many patients presenting with disseminated disease, either manifest or occult, curative treatment is applicable to only a small minority. For the majority of patients palliative relief of dysphagia is the goal of treatment. Clinicians have an ever inc...

We report our first clinical trials with the NdYAG laser in the treatment of tracheal and bronchial tumours and stenoses. The beam is carried through a flexible fibre delivering a power of 50 to 90 watts. It can be introduced through the biopsy channel of a standard bronchoscope, or through a fibrescope. Anaesthesia must avoid inflammable gases. In most cases, general anaesthesia was used, and ...

Nd-Fe-B/α-Fe multi-layered nanocomposite film-magnets were prepared from a rotating Nd2.6Fe14B/α-Fe composite target by the pulse laser deposition method with a NdYAG laser (λ=355 nm). The prepared film-magnets were composed of approximately 800 layers with the thickness of about several tens nanometre, and exhibited hard magnetic properties after annealing. The laser power for the ablation of ...