Background This study aimed to compare the surgical outcomes of pediatric patients with intermittent exotropia who underwent simultaneous eyelid and exotropia surgery and those who underwent exotropia surgery alone.
Methods The medical records of patients aged <18 years who underwent surgery for intermittent exotropia were retrospectively reviewed. The patients were grouped according to whether they underwent simultaneous eyelid surgery. In the simultaneous surgery group, the association between clinical factors, including the type of eyelid procedure, and surgical success was also analyzed. A favorable outcome was defined as an ocular alignment of ≤10 prism diopters (PD) for exodeviation and ≤4 PD for esodeviation at the final follow-up.
Results This study included 118 patients, of whom 31 underwent simultaneous eyelid and exotropia surgery and 87 underwent exotropia surgery alone. Bilateral repair of lower eyelid epiblepharon was the most common eyelid procedure (27/31, 87.1%). Success rates did not differ significantly between the two groups (log-rank test, p=0.291). In the simultaneous surgery group, no clinical factors, including the type of eyelid surgery, were significantly associated with favorable outcomes (all p>0.05).
Conclusion Simultaneous eyelid and exotropia surgery produced surgical outcomes comparable to those of exotropia surgery alone, validating the safety and feasibility of the combined procedure in appropriately selected pediatric patients.
Lymphoma is the most common primary tumor of the orbit, accounting for 55% of all orbital malignancies. When divided into histopathological subtypes, extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma) comprises the largest proportion. Clinical manifestations are unspecific, but in patients with slow-growing painless orbital mass, or red conjunctival lesion suggestive of ‘salmon patch’, ocular adnexa lymphoma (OAL) should be suspected. Although the pathogenetic mechanism of ocular adnexal MALT lymphoma (OAML) is not yet fully understood, the relationship between OAML and Chlamydia psittaci has been hypothesized recently, similar to that between gastric MALT lymphoma and Helicobacter pylori. This suggests a new treatment option for OAML; bacterial eradication therapy with systemic antibiotics. Several other treatment methods for OAML have been introduced, but no treatment guidelines have been established yet. In this article, we summarize the current knowledge on the clinical features, pathogenesis, diagnostic methods, therapeutic strategies, and prognosis of OAML.
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