The Big Picture
Don’t Burst Your Bubble
Conjunctival lymphangiectasis may be cosmetically troubling to patients but these benign lesions should be left undisturbed.
11/15/2020
A Stitch in Time
Corneal sutures provide a vector for infection. Here’s what to watch for to keep patients safe.
09/15/2020
Vessels Sound the Alarm
These painful eyes need steroids—and immunosuppressives when they fall short.
05/15/2020
Early Adopter, Chronic Sufferer
A 1990s LASIK patient’s troubled course continues nearly 30 years later.
03/15/2020
Last Line of Defense
A descemetocele leaves nothing but a thin membrane to protect the eye from perforation.
02/15/2020
A Knotty Problem
Sutures pose a challenge for contact lens fitting, necessitating an elevation-specific design.
11/15/2019
A Dark Diagnosis
Iris melanoma patients face tough choices—and more so when the other eye is impaired, too.
09/15/2019
Spread Too Thin
Patients with Terrien’s marginal degeneration should keep their safety glasses handy.
06/15/2019
Ring Around the Cornea
Peripheral edema occurring many years post-op, signifying Brown-McLean syndrome, may be initially alarming, but it’s nothing to worry about.
03/15/2019
Singing the Blues
A patient’s complicated ocular history results in an anterior staphyloma, leaving him few treatment options.
02/15/2019
