(1) In one patient, the pretibial myxedema developed symmetrically half a year after the appearance of endocrine exophthalmos.
(2) This case is an unusual example of fibrous dysplasia of the skull with neuro-ophthalmological symptoms but without ptosis, exophthalmos, or visual loss.
(3) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
(4) Exophthalmos was noted in 61 percent (N = 14) of the patients.
(5) Transantral decompression of the orbit for malignant exophthalmos can be recommended on the experiences of Walsh and Ogura, and Gorman et al.
(6) Apert-Crouzon syndrome (formerly ACS type 2; 10130) is now considered a subset of autosomal dominant Apert acrocephalosyndactyly type 1 (10120), with features of craniosynostoisis, syndactyly of all extremities, maxillary hypoplasia, "parrot-beaked" nose, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, external strabismus, and short upper lip.
(7) Facial deformity secondary to Crouzon disease may include exophthalmos and midfacial hypoplasia.
(8) Exophthalmos was mild and not more than 3 mm in any patient.
(9) A girl aged 13 years developed an acute unilateral Exophthalmos on the right side with disturbances of eye-motion, choked disc and nearly complete amaurosis within 3 days after onset.
(10) A 52-year-old man presented with left exophthalmos.
(11) 27 of 110 patients with combined type of thyrotoxicosis developed malignant exophthalmos.
(12) In two patients, the exophthalmos followed surgery, while in the third it did not appear until after radiation treatment.
(13) X-ray to the thyroid also can induce other histologic abnormalities, including a high incidence of adenomas and hypothyroidism, and is associated with an increased incidence of autoimmune thyroid disease and possibly the development of exophthalmos and Graves' disease.
(14) The patient was a 3-year-old boy in whom swelling of the left upper lid and left exophthalmos appeared after blunt trauma in the region of the left eye.
(15) As for the older symptoms, visual disturbance was seen in 4 cases, unilateral pulsating exophthalmos in 1 case and papilledema in 3 cases.
(16) The twins had gross exophthalmos and hydrocephalus with papilledema, so early calvarial decompression surgery was required.
(17) The patient was 47 year-old man who was admitted to our department on September 3, 1984 complaining of left conjunctival injection, exophthalmos and bruit at the left temporal region.
(18) Shortly after intraperitoneal administration of this fraction, typical narcotic-like effects were observed, including catalepsy, analgesia, Straub tail, shallow respiratory movements and exophthalmos.
(19) Clinical, radiological and anatomical description of sellar chordoma giving, on a sixty seven years old man, an unusually large tumoral exophthalmos, a massive orbito-sphenoidal osteolysis and a chiasmatic syndroma.
(20) A newborn boy was noted by his mother to have a prominent left eye at birth, but an eye examination was delayed until age 7 months, at which time his ophthalmologist diagnosed exophthalmos.
Socket
Definition:
(n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
(n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
Example Sentences:
(1) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.
(2) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(3) The torques, although not large enough to dislodge the socket immediately, are repetitive and so may contribute to loosening.
(4) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
(5) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(6) Only in 5 patients with severe haemophilia and in 1 patient with mild heamophilia bleeding from tooth sockets was extensive enough to require further replacement therapy.
(7) In one case, there was a very large anfractuous cavity in the socket and head, complicated by a pathological fracture of the socket, which raised the suspicion of a malignant tumor.
(8) In order to evaluate the usefulness of gamma-ray-irradiation to improve the tolerance to wear of the sockets, the worn surface of the 2.5 M rad gamma-ray-irradiated HDP sockets after total hip arthroplasty has been quantified by a newly-developed 3 dimensional (3-D) image analysis method in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
(9) Since the intra-articular volume of a ball-and-socket joint with a deep fossa, such as the hip joint, cannot be readily altered, this swelling is expected to exert a marked imbibitional pressure within the bone of the femoral head.
(10) The reduction in the rate of aseptic loosening of the socket in our series, compared with the higher rates reported in similar long-term studies in which other acetabular components were used, supports the conclusion that there is enhanced longevity of acetabular fixation when a metal-backed acetabular component is used in cemented total hip arthroplasty.
(11) One week after extraction, newly-formed vessels have extended widely to the socket center, and dilated vessels have arborized towards the socket opening.
(12) You are hunting for signs of the assembly of injuries - a broken nose, knocked-out teeth, fractured eye socket - incurred by falling face-first down a fire escape in Michigan while high on crystal meth, crack cocaine and cheap wine.
(13) The mitogenic, chemotactic, and synthetic responses of rat periodontal ligament (PDL) fibroblastic cells to epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor (rhPDGF)-AB, rhPDGF-BB, natural (n) PDGF-AB, and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) were examined in vitro using PDL cells obtained from the coagulum of healing tooth sockets.
(14) It has been shown that a socket wears predominantly on its superior part and that this is a direct consequence of the orientation of the cup in the body and the direction of loading of the hip.
(15) There are many unanswered questions regarding the histology and anatomy of the normal, as well as the contracting, socket.
(16) However, in all 21 cases the mode of loosening deviated from what is commonly observed in revision operations of loosened THA sockets.
(17) Bone remodelling of post-extraction socket was studied in the past by various methods.
(18) The results of split thickness autologous skin grafting along with the use of a dental impression material (Compo), a thermoplastic substance are presented in a series of 11 patients of acquired, severely contracted, anophthalmic sockets.
(19) The central, contained, solid grafts had less resorption than did the central, contained, crushed-bone grafts, as evidenced by less migration of the socket during follow-up.
(20) Salivary gland hypofunction caused a significant delay in socket healing.