Chief & Presenting Author: Dr.Nishi Satish
Co Author(s): Dr.Anurag Narula, Dr.Mehta Anuj, Dr.Sunita
Abstract
The purpose of this case series is to highlight the management of cases of Ocular Surface Squamous
Neoplasia(OSSN) that do not respond to topical therapy.
8 Patients (11 eyes ) who had not shown any adequate reduction in size or improvement in ocular surface on topical mitomycin C/ 5 FU or Interferon alpha 2b were subjected to partial/total surgical excision of their lesions with a histopathological evaluation postoperatively. Histopathological examination included ki67 values which denote the level of mitotic activity.
Results: On histopathological analysis along with confirmation of the diagnosis of OSSN the ki67 values of each of these 11 samples were abnormally high.
Conclusions: Our patients not only required surgical excision for some ocular relief, but they failed to respond at all to any antimitotic therapy topically. Ki-67 may be used as a marker for non responsive cases and these patients can be subjected to alternative therapy subsequently.
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