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In a bedridden, medically fragile patient with a symptomatic conjunctival cyst superior to the limbus, what is the optimal management approach?

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Ophthalmology · University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Fayetteville Campus

I would first attempt medical management with lubricants, ketorolac, olopatadine, and naphazoline.

If those failed, then I would use the following drops: topical anesthetic, a vasoconstrictor, and ketorolac twice over a five-minute period, then insert a lid speculum, and unroof the cyst by grasping ...

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