To cite: Abraham RR, Pahwa M, Klair JS, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-204949 DESCRIPTION Purtscher’s retinopathy (PR) was first described in 1910 as associated with trauma, and its association with acute pancreatitis was not described until late 1970s. A recent UK and Ireland survey by Agrawal and McKibbin found that acute pancreatit...

UNLABELLED This review aims to summarize existing information concerning visual disturbances in (pre) eclampsia that have been described in the literature. Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Visual disturbances in (pre)eclampsia seem to be frequent phenomena. Therefore, the obstetrician/gynecologist may encounter women with serious...

THE duct of Cloquet is a tubular area which traverses the eyeball in its anterior-posterior axis from the optic disk to the posterior pole of the lens. It develops at the expense of the central or original vitreous, which is progressively absorbed from the third month of intra-uterine life, during the formation of the definitive vitreous. In the human fqetus the duct of Cloquet exists from the ...

Foreign material usually gains access to the interior of the eye as a result of a perforating injury and a very wide variety of intraocular objects has been recorded, the commonest being iron or steel tool fragments which make up approximately go per cent. of the total (Duke-Elder, I954). Accidental introduction by the surgeon during any intraocular operation is always possible and it is perhap...