This study presents data on the clinical characteristics and possible mechanisms of the phantom eye syndrome in 112 patients after removal of one eye. The prevalence of phantom eye pain was 26%, nonpainful phantom sensations 29%, and visual hallucinations 31%. Headaches and preoperative eye pain were associated with the presence of phantom experiences. These results suggest that pain is an important cofactor for the development of phantom eye phenomena.
Background: Cluster headache (CH) is a neurovascular, primary headache disorder. There are, however, several case reports about patients whose CH started shortly after a structural brain disease or trauma. Motivated by a patient who developed CH 3 weeks after the removal of an eye and by similar case reports, we tested the hypothesis that the removal of an eye is a risk factor for CH.
Electrozone sensing is a rapid and effective method that has been widely used for particle size analysis. This method is based on the Coulter principle, which provides a measure of the solid volume of particles. However, for wastewater particles, due to the high porosity of these particles, the measured Coulter size is significantly less than the physical dimension of these particles. To quantify this effect, the size distribution curves of the sieved wastewater particles were measured using the Coulter particle sizing method, microscopy technique, and sieving methods. A theoretical model was developed by accounting for the porosity of wastewater particles to correlate the physical size of these particles to Coulter size measurement. However, this theoretical model underestimated the size of wastewater particles smaller than 100 lm. Instead, the wastewater particles size (D) for both primary and activated sludge samples was found to be linearly related to the Coulter particle size measurement (d) according to: D ¼ 2.14d with r 2 ¼ 0.98.
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