Photinos Panas

Photinos Panas (January 30, 1832 - 1903) was an ophthalmologist who was born on the Greek island of Cephalonia. In 1860 he obtained his medical degree at Paris, where he would later spend his entire medical career. He was the first professor of ophthalmology at the University of Paris, and in 1879 established the ophthalmology clinic at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. In 1881 with Edmund Landolt (1846-1926) and Antonin Poncet (1849-1913), he founded the "Archives d'ophtalmologie".

In 1894 he published "Traité des maladies des yeux", which at the time was considered to be the best French textbook on eye diseases. Panas is credited with introducing an operation for entropion in trichiasis, as well as an operation for attachment of the upper eyelid to the occipitofrontalis muscle for treatment of blepharoptosis. Each of these techniques is sometimes referred to as "Panas' operation" in medical literature.

References

* [http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/120/7/1004 Archives of Ophthalmology]
* [http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/becker/records300.htm The Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology]
* cite book
title=Dictionnaire médical
author=Jacques Quevauvilliers, Alexandre Somogyi, Philippe Letonturier
year=2004
publisher=Masson
isbn=2294013700
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NwKmxF5k9FUC&pg=PA666&lpg=PA666&dq=panas+trichiasis&source=web&ots=RbR6tW0LNM&sig=fnoEbmH75egxslNPWprPKxG96wY