Turkish Ournal of Ophthalmology

RKIS TU H ALMO TH LO PH SOCIETY G O Y 1928

Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology ISSN 2149-8695 TURKISH OURNAL OF JOPHTHALMOLOGY TJO

Original Articles Clinical Findings, Follow-up and Treatment Results in Patients with Ocular Rosacea İlkay Kılıç Müftüoğlu and Yonca Aydın Akova; İstanbul, Ankara, Turkey Comparison of Different Types of Complications in the Phacoemulsification Surgery Learning Curve According to Number of Operations Performed Mehmet Serhat Mangan et al; İstanbul, Kars, İzmir, Eskişehir, Turkey Active Silicone Oil Removal with a Transconjunctival Sutureless System: Is the 23-Gauge System Safe and Effective?

Vol: 46 Issue: 1 January-February 2016 Page: 1-46 Mahmut Kaya et al; İzmir, Turkey Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Işıl Sayman Muslubaş et al; İstanbul, Turkey Outcomes of Unilateral Inferior Oblique Myectomy Surgery in Inferior Oblique Overaction Due to Superior Oblique Palsy Erhan Yumuşak et al; Kırıkkale, Kars, Ankara, Turkey Canaliculitis Awareness Melike Balıkoğlu Yılmaz et al; İzmir, Ankara, Turkey Review The Choroid and Optical Coherence Tomography Taha Sezer et al; İstanbul, Turkey Case Reports Transpupillary Argon Laser Cyclophotocoagulation in a Refractory Traumatic Glaucoma Patient with Aphakia and Aniridia Umut Duygu Uzunel et al; İzmir, Giresun, Turkey Peripheral Vasculitis, Intermediate Uveitis and Interferon Use in Multiple Sclerosis Şeref Kinyas and Haluk Esgin; Edirne, Turkey Secondary Glaucoma Associated with Encircling Scleral Buckle Migration into the Cornea Şengül Özdek et al; Ankara, Mersin, Turkey

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Editor-in-Chief Advisory Board Murat İrkeç, MD Yonca Aydın Akova, Mehmet Cem Mocan, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Bayındır Kavaklıdere Hospital, Ophthalmology Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ophthalmology, Ankara, Turkey Clinic, Ankara, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara, Areas of Interest: Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease, Gürsoy Alagöz, Turkey Glaucoma, Allergy and Immunology Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine, Mehmet Okka, E-mail: [email protected] Department of Ophthalmology, Sakarya, Turkey Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Associate Editors Mehmet Baykara, Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey Tomris Şengör, MD Department of Ophthalmology, Bursa, Turkey Sibel Oto, Istanbul Bilim University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Jose M. Benitez-del-Castillo, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara, Ophthalmology, Istanbul, Turkey Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Turkey Areas of Interest: Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease, Contact Lens Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Department of E-mail: [email protected] Ophthalmology, Madrid, Spain Pınar Çakar Özdal, Ulucanlar Eye Research and Training Sait Eğrİlmez, MD Özlem Budakoğlu, Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Ulucanlar Eye Research and Training Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara, Turkey Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Izmir, Turkey Ankara, Turkey Hakan Özdemir, Areas of Interest: Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease, Contact Bezmialem Vakıf University Faculty of Güngör Sobacı, Lens, Refraction, Cataract and Refractive Surgery Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, E-mail: [email protected] İstanbul, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara, Özlem Yıldırım, MD Turkey Afsun Şahin, Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Bülent Gürler, Department of Ophthalmology, Eskişehir, Ophthalmology, Mersin, Turkey Fatih University Faculty of Medicine, Department Turkey Areas of Interest: Uveitis, Medical Retina, Glaucoma of Ophthalmology, İstanbul, Turkey İlknur Tuğal Tutkun, E-mail: [email protected] Murat Doğru, İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Keio University Faculty of Medicine, Banu Bozkurt, MD, FEBO Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo, Japan Selçuk University Faculty of Medicine, Department of İstanbul, Turkey Kadircan Keskinbora, Ophthalmology, Konya, Turkey Ahmet Tuncer Özmen, Ophthalmology, Independent Practitioner, Areas of Interest: Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease, Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey Glaucoma, Allergy and Immunology Department of Ophthalmology, Bursa, Turkey Anastasios G.P. Konstas, E-mail: [email protected] Ayşen Topalkara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Statistical Board Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Thessaloniki, Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara, Ahmet Dİrİcan Greece Turkey İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anat Loewenstein, Murat Tunç, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, İstanbul, Turkey Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Ankara Numune Research and Training Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Tel Language Editor Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Aviv, Israel Ankara, Turkey Jacqueline Renee Gutenkunst, Maryland, USA Ahmet Maden, Zeliha Yazar, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, İzmir, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara, Publishing House Jale Menteş, Turkey; Molla Gürani Mah. Kaçamak Sokak No: 21, 34093 Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Kafkas University Faculty of Medicine, F›nd›kzade-‹stanbul-Türkiye Tel.: +90 212 621 99 25 Faks: +90 212 621 99 27 Department of Ophthalmology, İzmir, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Kars, Turkey E-posta: [email protected] Printing at: Senk Ajans Reklam Matbaacılık San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. Sanayi Mah. Sultan Selim Cad. Aybike Sk.No:22/-3, Kağıthane, İstanbul, Türkiye The Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology is an official journal of the Turkish Tel: +90 212 264 38 77 Ophthalmology Society. Date of priting: February 2016 On Behalf of Turkish Ophthalmology Society Owner International scientific journal published bimonthly. Bora Eldem, ISSN 2149-8695 Online ISSN: 2149-8709 Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara, Turkey

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The Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology (TJO) is the only scientific periodical Membership Procedures publication of the Turkish Ophthalmology Society and has been published Turkish Ophthalmology Society since January 1929. In its early years, the journal was published in Bank Account: Yapı Kredi Bankası, Şehremini Şubesi 65774842 Turkish and French. Although there were temporary interruptions in the IBAN: TR10 0006 7010 0000 0065 7748 42 publication of the journal due to various challenges, the Turkish Journal of Annual Subscription: Domestic: 100.-TL (Tax Incl) Ophthalmology has been published continually from 1971 to the present. Abroad Turkey: 100 USD (Tax Incl.) The Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology is currently published in Turkish and Correspondence Address English languages. TJO is an independent international periodical journal Editor in Chief, Murat İrkeç, MD, Professor in Ophthalmology based on single-blind peer-review principle. 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Original Articles

1 Clinical Findings, Follow-up and Treatment Results in Patients with Ocular Rosacea İlkay Kılıç Müftüoğlu, Yonca Aydın Akova

7 Comparison of Different Types of Complications in the Phacoemulsification Surgery Learning Curve According to Number of Operations Performed Mehmet Serhat Mangan, Eray Atalay, Ceyhun Arıcı, İbrahim Tuncer, Mustafa Değer Bilgeç

11 Active Silicone Oil Removal with a Transconjunctival Sutureless System: Is the 23-Gauge System Safe and Effective? Mahmut Kaya, Ayhan Özyurt, Arif Taylan Öztürk, Duygu Er, Süleyman Kaynak, Nilüfer Koçak

16 Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Işıl Sayman Muslubaş, Mümin Hocaoğlu, Serra Arf, Hakan Özdemir, Murat Karaçorlu

21 Outcomes of Unilateral Inferior Oblique Myectomy Surgery in Inferior Oblique Overaction Due to Superior Oblique Palsy Erhan Yumuşak, Ümit Yolcu, Murat Küçükevcilioğlu, Oktay Diner, Fatih Mehmet Mutlu

25 Canaliculitis Awareness Melike Balıkoğlu Yılmaz, Emine Şen, Ebru Evren, Ufuk Elgin, Pelin Yılmazbaş

Review

30 The Choroid and Optical Coherence Tomography Taha Sezer, Muhammet Altınışık, İbrahim Arif Koytak, Mehmet Hakan Özdemir

Case Reports

38 Transpupillary Argon Laser Cyclophotocoagulation in a Refractory Traumatic Glaucoma Patient with Aphakia and Aniridia Umut Duygu Uzunel, Berna Yüce, Tuncay Küsbeci, Halil Ateş

41 Peripheral Vasculitis, Intermediate Uveitis and Interferon Use in Multiple Sclerosis Şeref Kinyas, Haluk Esgin

44 Secondary Glaucoma Associated with Encircling Scleral Buckle Migration into the Cornea Şengül Özdek, Murat Hasanreisoğlu, Ufuk Adıgüzel, Zeynep Aktaş

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