purpose : to present the conjunctival aphthous ulceration in behçet’s disease (bd) case report : a 36-year-old woman with a known history of bd presenting an isolated, monosymptomatic conjunctival bulbar aphthosis. the eye was photophobic and painful. the lesion appeared four days prior to the consultation and measured 3.5 to 1.5 mm, which was totally excised and underwent pathological investig...

Myeloid sarcoma is known as a tumor mass of myeloblasts or immature myeloid cells occurring in an extramedullary site. When ophthalmic areas are involved, it is usually located in the orbits and noted at or after the diagnosis of an underlying leukemia. We report a 38 year-old woman who had isolated conjunctival myeloid sarcoma without any other clinical signs and symptoms. Acute myeloid leukem...

IAN SACKS Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia An Affican girl aged 12 was referred with ? haemangioma of the conjunctiva. Examination.-A cherry-red pedunculated mass arose from the lower fornix of the conjunctiva of the right eye; it was only visible on everting the lower eyelid (Fig. la, lb). No skin lesions were found on the extremities or abdominal wall, but numerous submandibular, axillary, and ing...

Annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma is a condition characterized histologically by damaged elastic fibers associated with preponderance of giant cells along with absence of necrobiosis, lipid, mucin, and pallisading granuloma. It usually occurs on sun-damaged skin and hence the previous name actinic granuloma. A similar process occurs on the conjunctiva. Over the past three decades only fo...

Bawana Raina, Mega Lahori*, Arvind Khajuria Department of Pathology, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences, Jammu, India Ocular rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi, a protistal microorganism endemic in the hot, tropical climes of India and Sri Lanka. It often presents as a friable, vascular conjunctival polyp but may mimic other ocul...

BACKGROUND An important component of the World Health Organization's comprehensive trachoma elimination strategy is the provision of repeated annual mass azithromycin distributions, which are directed at reducing the burden of ocular chlamydia. Knowledge of characteristics associated with infection after mass antibiotic treatments could allow trachoma programs to focus resources to those most l...

Sebaceous gland carcinoma usually arises from meibomian or Zeis glands deep within the eyelid, but it can rarely arise within the conjunctival epithelium without a deep component. We describe a woman with a history of chronic blepharoconjunctivitis unresponsive to topical medications. Examination disclosed confluent papillary hypertrophy of the upper palpebral conjunctiva and deposits of white ...

INTRODUCTION Normal bacterial flora may be altered by a variety of factors. OBJECTIVE To study the aerobic bacterial conjunctival flora in patients with diabetes mellitus and to find its clinical significance by comparing the results to the conjunctival flora of non-diabetic subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 75 diabetic patients were included as cases and 25 nondiabetics as control...

we are describing a new surgical approach in the management of advanced ocular surface cicatrization through a single procedure conjunctival-limbal-corneal allograft in which the external eye is resurfaced it involves a lamellar corneolimbal keratoplasty, 360° limbal stem cell transfer (on a “bipedicle” conjunctival-corneal carrier), and conjunctival tissue transplantation - all in a single con...

purpose: to present the success of novel method for management of conjunctival orbital inclusion cysts following enucleation after using trichloroacetic acid injection technique. methods: a 20% tca solution was injected to treat 6 cases of orbital conjuctival cyst in anophthalmic socket. results: all the patients were treated successfully. the follow-up interval was 1-7 years. no recurrence or ...