The purpose of the present study was to objectively quantify the spectral transmittance of the eyelid. Reported here are data acquired using a technique that was developed to provide practical and accurate measurements of eyelid transmittance across the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The empirical data were analyzed in terms of the absorption and scattering characteristics of ...

The upper eyelid crease height pretarsal skin and eyebrow height were studied in 305 Malay subjects (146 males and 159 females) varying in age from 2-80 years, who were randomly selected from the residents of Kota Bharu, Kelantan. In females, from the age of 11 years the mean pretarsal skin height increased progressively with age. In males, however, it decreased with age up to 60 years. In both...

PURPOSE First experience and evaluation of relapses in group of patients after surgery with applied adjuvant HDR brachytherapy for recurrent tumor after incomplete excision of basal cell carcinoma of the lower eyelid and inner angle. METHODS Patients with recurrent basal cell carcinoma of the lower eyelid in year 2010. In 3 male patients with recurrent finding of basal cell after surgery we a...

BACKGROUND Pigmented basal cell carcinoma (PBCC) of the eyelid has not been well cited in the literature, and is often overlooked in the differential diagnosis of pigmented eyelid lesions. We aim to describe PBCC of the eyelid in Hispanic patients. METHODS Retrospective review of patients with eyelid skin cancer who presented to the Department of Dermatology at the Keck School of Medicine of ...

Eyelid lesions are frequently seen in healthy infants. Common diagnoses include viral papilloma, chalazion, molluscum contagiosum, epithelial inclusion cyst, dermoid cyst, and capillary hemangioma. Less frequently recognized eyelid tumors consist of pilomatrixoma, apocrine hidrocystoma, pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia, neurofibroma, and choristoma. Characteristics of specific lesions, such as...

OBJECTIVE To clarify in vivo healing of eyelid skin after carbon dioxide (CO2) laser resurfacing. DESIGN Patients requesting upper eyelid blepharoplasty consented to undergo previous CO2 laser skin resurfacing of the upper eyelid skin segments to be excised at various time intervals. After blepharoplasty, the skin specimens were analyzed histopathologically by 2 masked pathologists. PATIENT...

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) causes chronic blepharitis and conjunctivitis as well as keratitis in humans. The pathogenesis of these inflammatory ocular and dermal lesions is not well understood. We have examined the persistence of HSV-1 DNA and its relationship to inflammatory lesions in the conjunctiva and eyelid skin of mice which were inoculated with HSV-1 by the corneal route. Viral...

Conjunctival malignant melanoma is a rare tumor with a high risk of local recurrence, lymph node and systemic metastases. The aim of this study was to correlate tumor thickness, tumor ulceration, high mitotic rate, epithelioid cells with the presence of metastases and death from conjunctival malignant melanoma. We report the case of a 33-year-old patient who presented with a left eyelid ptosis ...

PURPOSE To describe imaging of the external eye with Crossed Polarizers to enhance clinically important features in digital photographs of the eyelids. METHODS External photographs with and without crossed polarizing filters were taken of patients with blepharitis and controls with no clinical eye pathology. RESULTS Photographing eyelid skin through Crossed Polarizers decreased reflections ...