*Colonel, US Army (Ret); Ophthalmology Residency Program Director, Department of Ophthalmology, The Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, and Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-4799; formerly, Consultant in Ophthalmology to The Surgeon General, US Army, and Ophthalmology Residency Program Dire...

The photograph here ..published is that of a boy who was brought to me for opinion and diagnosis. The condition appears to be possibly one of symmetrical enchondromata of the eyelids. This disease is one of extreme rarity, and is only passingly referred to in Fuch's Textbook of Ophthalmology. In this particular patient points of interest are the young age of the patient and the symmetrical cond...

CLINICAL CASE A 53 year-old man presented with a progressive enophthalmos without any sinus or nasal symptoms. There was no history of a trauma. The ophthalmology examination showed enophtalmos and hypoglobus. The computerized tomography (CT) showed a collapsed maxillary and frontal sinus and a lateral deviation of the nasal septum that led us to the diagnosis. DISCUSSION The clinical feature...

T'HERE is a quotation from IKipling which runls "God gives all men the earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall prove Beloved over All." So to-night I propose to give you the history of the Belfast School of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, the Hospitals comprising it and the men who have made it, also my own personal view as to its future as seen from (1...

purpose : to determine add power (ap) and amplitude of accommodation (aa) in a sample of iranian population and its relationship with refractive errors methods : this cross-sectional study enrolled people of 35-70 years old by simple random sampling. exclusion criteria were myopia or hyperopia over 6 diopter (d) and astigmatism more than 0.75 d. those with a history of eye disorders and taking ...

A n interesting letter about an important figure in the history of American ophthalmology was recently discovered in the archives of the Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC. The letter, dated September 29, 1929, is from Dr Julian Deryl Hart (1894-1980) to Dr Wilbert Cornell Davison (1897-1972). In the letter, Hart discusses plans for the new Duke University School of Medicine. Midway...

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With the advent of modern ophthalmic treatment the use of mercury preparations in ophthalmology has almost been relegated to past history, but mercurous chloride (calomel) is still occasionally used as an insufflation into the eyes, especially in such conditions as phlyctenular keratoconjunctivitis. Recently we saw a case wherein mercuric chloride (HgCl2) was mistaken for calomel and dusted int...

purpose : acanthamoeba keratitis (ak) is a sight-threatening corneal infection with a rapidly increased incidence since 1990s along with the growing popularity of contact lenses. in this study we aimed to study patients with ak and its associated risk factors in farabi eye hospital of tehran, focusing on those with more severe corneal involvement. methods : patients with clinical or laboratory ...

As educational levels rise in Europe, is the prevalence of myopia rising as well? Williams et al. investigated this question and found that myopia is indeed becoming more common among Europeans. However, higher education seems to be one of several factors contributing to the condition, rather than the sole cause. For this meta-analysis, the researchers evaluated 15 population-based cross-sectio...