Under normal conditions, tears in the eyes are drained into the lacrimal sac through small openings called the upper and lower puncta located at the inner corner of the eye (called medial canthus).

A 36-year-old man presented to the ophthalmology department with a 1-month history of redness in his right eye, photophobia, and tearing and foreign body sensation without improvement, despite ...

Chemical burns of the eye represent 7.0%–9.9% of all ocular trauma. Initial management of ocular chemical injuries is irrigation of the eye and conjunctival sac until neutralisation of the tear ...

The sac that lubricates the eye and acts as a barrier between the eye itself and the outside world, the conjunctival sac, was congested, doctors said, and a small lesion was growing.

Ocular surface epithelium barrier function was evaluated by the fluorophotometric method using a slit lamp fluorophotometer. 3 μl of 0.5% sodium fluorescein was instilled into the conjunctival sac of ...

Objectives To investigate bacterial flora of clinically healthy conjunctiva and nasal cavity among patients prior to refractive surgery, as well as the characteristics of patients with ...