Ciliary body medulloepitheliomas in childhood often masquerade other intraocular conditions due to its insidious nature as well as its secondary effects on proximal intraocular tissues in the anterior chamber. We report a case where a ciliary body medulloepithelioma in a two-year-old boy presents with chronic uveitis, cataract, and an uncontrolled secondary glaucoma after an innocuous blunt ocu...

Infantile hemangioma or hamangioma of infancy is the most common tumor in children, with great variability of presentation. Most cases resolve spontaneously and treatment is usually indicated for specific cases where injury has a high rate of morbidity or disfigurement after regression. The treatment is based on the use of systemic corticosteroids, which can also be used topically or by intrale...

A hiperpigmentação periocular é uma alteração cutânea, que através do excesso de melanina causa manchas, sendo existem vários fatores extrínsecos e intrínsecos desencadeantes. O procedimento com peeling consiste na aplicação agentes químicos. propósito deste estudo realizar revisão sistemática literatura o objetivo analisar químico como tratamento para a periorbital. Foi efetuada sobre tema rev...

Practitioners frequently have the opportunity to manage the child for whom the chief complaint is a swollen eye. Some children have trivial or self-limited disorders, but others can have sight- or life-threatening problems. Noninfectious causes of the swollen eye include blunt trauma, tumor, local edema, and allergy. Infectious causes can be preseptal or orbital in origin. The differential diag...

introduction autologous plasma-rich platelet (prp) is a human platelet concentrated product which is in low volume of plasma. using prp in rejuvenation and resolution of some cosmetic problems has been already popular in many countries and also in iran. as no study performed in this field in iran and regarding the high prevalence of using prp in society with no validate references in the case o...

A 70-year-old man developed severe periorbital edema secondary to imatinib mesylate (Gleevec; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp, East Hanover, NJ). Imatinib mesylate is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor with a high degree of specificity for the BCRABL, KIT, and platelet-derived growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases. It is thought that inhibition of platelet-derived growth factor receptor results in dis...

Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is an autosomal dominant autoinflammatory disorder caused by mutations in the TNFRSF1A gene encoding the 55-kDa receptor for tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α. It is characterized by recurrent prolonged episodes of fever accompanied by abdominal pain, pleuritis, migratory skin rashes, fasciitis, headache, conjunctivitis, and perior...