BACKGROUND AND AIMS In Scotland, uveal melanomas are primarily treated with eye-preserving modalities with a low primary enucleation rate. Proton beam therapy (PBT) is reserved for those not suitable for brachytherapy. The authors' aim was to review the outcome of Scottish patients undergoing treatment for uveal melanoma with PBT. METHOD All ciliary body or choroidal melanomas treated initial...

Previous research has shown that observers with early unilateral enucleation have selectively better sensitivity to luminance contrast than monocular viewing controls [González et al., 2002; Vision Research 36 (1) (1996) 175; Vision Research 36 (1996) 3011; Vision Research 37 (17) (1997) 2465]. We asked whether unilateral enucleation specifically enhances all levels of luminance processing. Enu...

BACKGROUND Coats' disease is an exudative retinal detachment with vascular telangiectasis occurring mostly in male children, the age group most affected by retinoblastoma. OBJECTIVES Compare the differential diagnoses of Coats' disease Establish recommendation to early disease detection. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 3-year-old female child was referred to Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Tanza...

This study aims to explore the psychosocial factors and challenges affecting lives of those who wear an ocular prosthesis following a traumatic eye injury. Thematic analysis semi-structured interviews with eight individuals resulted in five themes: emotional devastation aftermath; moving forward; fear negative social evaluation; keeping it normal - protecting self close others; threat injury & ...

The effects of early monocular form deprivation on the developing mammalian visual system, and the anatomical and physiological consequences of early monocular enucleation, suggest that the remaining eye of human subjects who had the other eye removed early during development might be capable of supernormal performance. To test this inference, the achromatic contrast sensitivity of the remainin...

A 49-year-old man presented after a ruptured globe repair of his left eye status post a bungee cord injury with decreased vision in his right eye six weeks after the trauma occurred. Visual acuities were 20/40 in the right eye and no light perception in the left eye. Intraocular pressures were 27 and 5, respectively. Slit lamp examination of the right eye revealed 1+ conjunctival injection, fin...

Many types of cancers metastasize to the eye. However, uveal melanoma metastasizing to the contralateral choroid is very rare. We report the case of a 68-year-old man with history of treated uveal melanoma of the right eye that developed metastasis to the liver and the choroid of the left eye. Ten years earlier, he was diagnosed to have uveal melanoma of the right eye and was initially treated ...

The literature on Clostridium perfringens infections is reviewed up to 1983. An additional case is reported with bilateral clostridial infections of the eye and orbit. One eye followed the classical course of relentless panophthalmitis, amaurosis, and orbital cellulitis ending in enucleation. The second eye contained intracameral mud and gas bubbles that were removed by vitrectomy instrumentati...

A 17-year-old young girl was seen by us with complaints of progressive, painless decreasing vision in one eye for the last 4 years. No other supporting history could be elucidated. On examination, a large choroidal mass was found. Since the features were suggestive of malignant melanoma of the choroid, an enucleation of the eye was performed. Subsequently, histopathological examination of the e...