Archives of Iranian Medicine, Volume 10, Number 3, July 2007 426 Household Ocular Injuries: A Case Series To determine the natures and types of household eye injuries, we prospectively analyzed data from 100 consecutive patients with household eye injuries (104 eyes) referred to emergency room of Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran in October 2003. Standardized international classification of ...

Chloroma or gr anulocytic sarcoma (GS) is a malignant neoplasm of myeloid lineage that occur in a variety of anatomic sites other than the bone marrow including soft tissue, bone, lymph node, nasal fossa, skin and sometime in the orbit. In the subconjunctiva it is rarely reported. A 4-year-old girl with a history of treated acute myelogenous leukemia was referred to Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran,...

the principal problem in studying farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: greek political philosophy, iranshahri (persian polis) pre-islamic political thoughts, and islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s trinary category: greek political philosophy/ fighi shari’at-name/ iranian siasat-name. this articl...

PURPOSE To report normal interpupillary distance (IPD) values in different age groups of an Iranian population. METHODS This study was performed on 1,500 randomly selected subjects from 3,260 consecutive out-patients with refractive errors referred to Farabi Eye Hospital, Isfahan, Iran over a period of two years (2008 to 2010). Measurement of refractive errors and IPD for far distance were pe...

OBJECTIVE To show how an extending capsulorrhexis can be rescued by a midway tangential capsular flap in order to achieve an uneventful phacoemulsification. DESIGN Consecutive case series. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-two eyes of 22 patients with extending capsulorrhexis treated at the Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran. METHODS First, a tangential capsular opening was created on the border of the presum...

Levamisole is an anthelmintic agent and also immunostimulant drug which is used to treat colorectal cancer. The present study aimed to show accidental consumption of levamisole alone induced multifocal inflammatory leukoencephalopathy. A 53-year-old male was admitted to the Neurology Department of Farabi Hospital (Kermanshah, Iran) with walking inability and recognition disorder. Following clin...