purpose: to present a case of ocular toxocariasis in a young male subject from the north of iran. case report: a 29-year-old man presented to our clinic with history of decreased vision in his left eye from 10 days before. he had a history of similar symptoms 2 years ago. visual acuity in the left eye was counting fingers at 2 meters but relative afferent pupillary defect was negative. the righ...

purpose: to report a case of hypotonous maculopathy after blunt trauma and its treatment. patient and findings: a 34-year-old woman presented with decreased visual acuity in her left eye following blunt trauma. right eye examination was unremarkable, but visual acuity of left eye was counting fingers. slit lamp biomicroscopy of the left eye was within normal limits, but on funduscopy, papilloma...

purpose : to report a rare case of large vascularized astrocytoma on optic disc. case report : a 12-year-old boy with history of decreased vision in the left eye since 5-6 months ago was referred to the ocular oncology service at rassoul akram hospital with provisional diagnosis of retinoblastoma. on examination, visual acuity was counting fingers at 50 cm, and a 3+ relative afferent pupillary ...

purpose: to report a relatively rare case of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (fevr). patient and findings: a 13-year-old boy referred with decreased visual acuity of both eyes, specially right eye from 6 years ago. he had several ophthalmologist and optometrist visits and spectacle prescription without any improvement of vision. best corrected visual acuity (bcva) was 25 cm of count finger...

introduction: child abuse is one of the major problems of today’s societies ;so in developed countries supportive laws for children have been established. obvious manifestations of physical child abuse include: skin lesions (echymosis, erosion, biting), skull fractures and injury to the visceral organs. physicians should take child abuse in their consideration whenever they encounter skin manif...

purpose: to report a case of butterfly-shaped macular dystrophy. patient and findings: a 34-year-old woman presented with metamorphopsia in both eyes from 2 years ago. visual acuity was 9/10 in right eye and 10/10 in left eye. there was no pathologic finding on slit lamp biomicroscopy and funduscopy other than mild macular retinal pigment epithelium mottling. visual fields and electroretinogram...

AIMS To determine the sensitivity of confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) in detecting clinically significant changes in papilloedema secondary to idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and the correlation with visual field loss. METHODS Eight patients--three new, two recurrent, and three chronic cases of IIH--were examined over a 9 month period with SLO (Heidelberg retina tomogra...

A 33-year-old male patient presented with gradual and progressive protrusion of his left eye. He had a history of rhinoplasty for correction of nasal septal deviation 10 years ago. The patient developed intermittent bloody nasal discharge one year after rhinoplasty and underwent diagnostic paranasal sinus endoscopy and maxillary sinus antrostomy and biopsy. Histopathological studies had reveale...