The authors experienced a case of Marfan's syndrome in whom the right sided lens was dislocated into the anterior chamber and the left side inferio-temporally into vitreous. In addition, the lens of the right eye was complicated by cataract, and a favorable outcome was obtained by intracapsular lens extraction.
Anterior Chamber* ; Cataract ; Lens Subluxation* ; Marfan Syndrome*

The authors have studied on the effect of digital pressure on eyeball under the surface anesthesia instead of other reducing agents of intraocular pressure and retrobulbar anesthesia in order to lower the intraocular pressure as a preoperative procedure of cataract extraction in 26 eyeballs of 24 patients and following results were obtained: 1. The authors had intraocular pressure lowered till averaging 10.8 mmHg (average 13.5 ~ 8.0 mmHg) of original pressure by ocular massage. 2. Massage on eyeball was thought to be a satisfactory preoperative procedure to perform cataract extractIon. 3. In operative complications, loss of vitreous and rupture of capsule were noticed 11.5% and 60% respectively. and it was thought to be caused by technical failure in surgeons. In view of this fact we could not find that the loss of vitreous was caused by intraocular pressure below 13.5 mmHg.
Anesthesia ; Cataract Extraction* ; Cataract* ; Humans ; Intraocular Pressure ; Massage* ; Preoperative Care ; Reducing Agents ; Rupture

The authors had recently experienced a case of optic nerve atrophy leading to blindness caused by acute carbon monoxide poisoning and reviewed the literatures of ocular changes secondary to the poisoning. The major findings were intraorbital bleeding, exophthalmos, ptosis, impairment of the ocular movement, superficial retinal hemorrhage and narrowing of the retinal vessels, the last two being thought to be degenerative changes leading to thrombosis of central retinal artery. At the 21th day after the accident exophthalmos, ptosis and ocular movement were recovered to normal but in the fundus retinal vessels could be found hardly and disc was pale.
Atrophy ; Blindness ; Carbon Monoxide Poisoning* ; Carbon Monoxide* ; Carbon* ; Exophthalmos ; Hemorrhage ; Optic Nerve ; Poisoning ; Retinal Artery ; Retinal Hemorrhage ; Retinal Vessels ; Thrombosis

Dermatofibroma, a benigh tumor, invading eyelid is seldom reported. The authors experienced a case of tumor invading medial part of the left lower eyelid in a patient of eight day of age. The tumor was resected under general anesthesia and histopathological study revealed it to be dermatofibroma.
Anesthesia, General ; Eyelids ; Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous* ; Humans

From 39 eyes of 31 cases which received the cataract operation performed under the surface anesthesia by 2 specialists, 2 senior, 1 third and 1 first year residents at Red cross Society, the following results were obtained. 1. The maximal value of intraocular pressure was 19.0mmHg, minimal value, 11.5mmHg and the average, 14.9mmHg just before the cataract operation. 2. The rupture of the capsule was 21.4% and the loss of vitreous body, 7.1% in intraocular lens extrations. 3. The degree of anteior projetion of the eyes had not direct relationship with the intracapsular lens extraction. 4. All patients who received the cataract operation were required sufficient akinesia sedation. 5. Within normal intraocular pressure, the intraocular pressure didn't seem to have any effect to the loss of vitreous body.
Anesthesia ; Cataract* ; Humans ; Intraocular Pressure* ; Lenses, Intraocular ; Red Cross ; Rupture ; Specialization ; Vitreous Body

Many surgical procedures for pterygium and the postoperative cares for the prevention of recurrences have been employed, but no satisfactory methods are available yet. The authors analyzed the surgical procedures and postoperative cares doing ordinarily by 64 ophthalmologists who replied the questionnaire sent by us to 135 all regbteted Korean Ophthalmologists. The results are as follows; 1. The most preferred surgical procedure utilized was the bare scleral method. 2. 90Sr. irradiation was done, in the majority, to prevent the postoperative recurrence then long time instillations of mitomycin-c and steroid were utilized in the remainder. 3. The most utilized dosage of total 90Sr. irradiation were 4,000-6,000 rep. and 2 or 3 fractionated irradiations were performed in the majority. 4. The recurrence rates were 4.3% at 90Sr. irradiation, 5.2% at mitomycin-c instillation and 4.7% in average.
Mitomycin ; Pterygium* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Recurrence

A 14 years old boy visited our hospital in Oct. 1974 for massive proptosis and visual disturhance of his left eye with rapid onset after blunt trauma. So diagnosed as orbital pseudotumor clinicalIy and treated with high dosage of steroid and antibiotics and the result was excelIent.
Adolescent ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Exophthalmos ; Humans ; Male ; Orbit* ; Orbital Pseudotumor*