Histological evidence of tissue reaction to gold weights used for mechanical ptosis

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1379-1380

  Lockington, David ^a   Chadha, Vikas ^a   Russell, Heather ^a   Cauchi, Paul ^a   Tetley, Laurence ^b   Roberts, Fiona ^a   Kemp, Ewan ^a  

^a GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE REACTION; EYELID DISEASES; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

AGED; EYELID DISEASES; FEMALE; GOLD; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 77958001569     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.235     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Sönmez A, Oztürk N, Durmuş N, Bayramiçli M, Numanoǧlu A. Patients' perspectives on the ocular symptoms of facial paralysis after gold weight implantation. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2008;61(9):1065-1068.
2. Saleh GM, Mavrikakis I, de Sousa JL, Xing W, Malhotra R. Corneal astigmatism with upper eyelid gold weight implantation using the combined high pretarsal and levator fixation technique. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2007;23(5):381-383. (Pubitemid 47442777)
3. de Waele M. Silver-enhanced colloidal gold for the detection of leucocyte cell surface antigens in darkfield and epipolarisation microscopy. In: Hayat MA, ed. Colloidal Gold, Volume 2: Principles, Methods and Applications. New York, NY: Academic Press; 1989.
4. Doyle E, Mavrikakis I, Lee EJ, Emerson R, Rainey AJ, Brittain GP. Type IV hypersensitivity reactions to upper lid gold weight implants: is patch testing necessary? Orbit. 2005;24(3):205-210.
5. Schrom T, Taege C, Wolf G, Reinhardt A, Scherer H. Histopathology after implantation of lid weights [in German]. HNO. 2006;54(8):591-596, 598.
6. Armstrong DK, Walsh MY, Dawson JF. Granulomatous contact dermatitis due to gold earrings. Br J Dermatol. 1997;136(5):776-778. (Pubitemid 27278092)
7. Silver AL, Lindsay RW, Cheney ML, Hadlock TA. Thin-profile platinum eyelid weighting: a superior option in the paralyzed eye. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2009;123(6):1697-1703.