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Clinicopathologic factors and survival in patients with sebaceous carcinoma of eyelid
5 February 2020
| Rina Bhatt
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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Prognostic Factors, Retrospective Analysis, Sebaceous Carcinoma
This is a population-based analysis performed to evaluate the prognostic factors and survival of patients with sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelid. Patients with eyelid sebaceous carcinoma from 1973-2013 were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database and...
ICG TTT for retinoblastoma
1 August 2016
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) is a specific form of ocular TT using infrared radiation (diode laser). Indocyanine green (ICG) is also used to achieve the optimal phototherapy effect in eyes with minimal pigment. Twenty-one patients with 42 retinoblastomas in 30 eyes...
Understanding vasoproliferative retinal tumours
Syed Irtiza Ali Shah explores this rare and unusual condition through a fascinating case presentation. Vasoproliferative tumours of the retina (VPTR) are a vascular mass with an associated exudative retinopathy alongside the presence of minimally dilated feeder vessels. This is...Staged excision of primary periocular BCC
2 December 2019
| Jonathan Chan
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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eyelids, neoplasia, pathology, treatment surgery
This is a 10 retrospective review of case notes study of 437 patients of staged basal cell carcinoma (BCC) excisions between 2000 and 2017. All patients had 3mm clinically clear margins with staged excision and standard reconstruction techniques were performed...
Carcinoid tumours
This is a retrospective review of 28 patients with carcinoid tumours affecting the orbit. The mean age at presentation of the orbital involvement was 62 years, with a slight female preponderance, and 21% had carcinoid syndrome. Proptosis and diplopia were...Lacrimal gland carcinoma
This is a major review of the management of lacrimal gland carcinoma, focusing mainly on adenoid cystic carcinoma. Relevant literature published in English since 1970 was included amounting to some 40 articles after filtering. Overall mortality for all lacrimal gland...Yolk sac tumours of the orbit and sinonasal tract
3 August 2023
| Hetvi Bhatt
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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Endodermal sinus tumour, orbit, paediatric, sinus, yolk sac tumour
This paper outlines two case reports of patients with yolk sac tumours (YSTs) and carries out a review of the literature on this rare malignancy. YSTs are a type of germ cell tumour and primarily occur in the gonads. Ten...
Brain tumours in adults: the essentials for an ophthalmologist
The author provides a review of the common intracranial tumours in adults (other than pituitaries) which may present to an ophthalmologist. Primary malignant brain tumours comprise 3% of adult cancers but with an ageing population such tumours are becoming more...Pituitary tumours: why are they so often missed?
1 October 2017
| James F (Barry) Cullen
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
Part 3: Clinical features, assessment and management (see also Part 2, and Part 1) As previously mentioned in this treatise [1] pituitary tumours are common, occur in all age groups and can present with anything from minimal visual symptoms to...
Combined Vismodegib and Mohs surgery
1 April 2019
| James Hsuan
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Oculoplastics
This is a report of eight patients with locally advanced periocular basal cell carcinoma who were treated with Vismodegib prior to Mohs micrographic surgery. The rationale for the combined treatment plan was that long-term Vismodegib is poorly tolerated due to...
Prognostication for uveal melanoma
1 October 2017
| Yamini Krishna
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors highlight the importance of using all available data in the prognostication of uveal melanoma (UM). Over recent years a number of molecular tests have emerged to allow clinicians to predict metastatic potential of UM. However, concordance between techniques...
Presentation features of ocular neuromyotonia in children
4 October 2023
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors report five cases of ocular neuromyotonia (ON) in children following radiation treatment for brain tumours. Children were aged four, nine, twelve, five and nine years. Three had craniopharyngioma, one had fourth ventricle ependymoma and one had posterior fossa...