1 Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan 2Department of Ophthalmology, Marmara University School of Medicine, 34903 Istanbul, Turkey 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan 4Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of To...

The corresponding author submitted this article [1] to the Journal of Ophthalmology although it was under review by BMC Ophthalmology. The article was subsequently accepted and published by the Journal of Ophthalmology [2] and then by BMC Ophthalmology [1]. As it has been brought to the attention of the Editor that duplicate submission and publication have taken place, the Editor has made the d...

THAT invaluable document on the early history of British Ophthalmology, MS. Sloane 3801 (British Museum), was printed in full by James (1933), from whose book Fig. 1 (overleaf) is reproduced. The MS. was subsequently shown to have been written by Richard Banister (James and Sorsby, 1934). The evidence then advanced was largely indirect, but additional evidence is now available which puts this c...

BACKGROUND South Africa has a 32-year history of training ophthalmic nurse practitioners (ONPs). The role and required skills and competencies of ONPs are not well documented in the international literature and are also absent from South African publications, including South African Nursing Council publications. AIM This study aims to inform curriculum development and human resource planning ...

Received: 1/5/09. Accepted: 30/6/09. 1 Ophthalmology Chair Professor, University of Castilla La Mancha. Alicante Ophthalmological Institute (VISSUM). Cooperative Research Network on Ophthalmology (RTICS). Albacete. Spain. 2 Associate Professor, University of Barcelona. Bellvitge University Hospital. Macula and Retina Institute. Teknon Medical Centre. Barcelona. Spain. 3 Section Chief, Ophthalmo...

This recent addition to the Clio Medica series is very welcome for several reasons. It is almost unique, for the only other histories of ophthalmology in English are a very short essay by Sorsby and an article by Shastid in the American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. The brevity of Chance's history has excluded a separate bibliography, yet the author has managed to include mention in the text o...

1Department of Ophthalmology, Ohashi Medical Center, Toho University, Tokyo 153-8515, Japan 2Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA 3Department of Ophthalmology, Mater Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland 4Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea 5Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku Unive...

When Cuba was hit by a neuropathy epidemic two decades ago, Dr Rosaralis Santiesteban was one of the Cuban health professionals who played a key role in its management, as reflected in a recent issue of Seminars in Ophthalmology. She was well prepared for her part: trained in medicine at the University of Havana before completing a residency in ophthalmology and eventually a doctorate in medica...

purpose: to report an unusual case of orbitocranial meningioma presenting in a neonate. methods: case report results: a 1-day-old neonate was presented with severe proptosis of the left eye. ct scan and mri showed an extensive mass with involvement of left orbit and brain. discrete calcification could be seen on ct scan. the patient did not have any signs of neurofibromatosis and family history...