Usher's syndrome is a genetically inherited autosomal recessive disorder resulting in the double handicap of deafness and progressive blindness, known as retinitis pigmentosa. The disease is also associated with psychoses, mental retardation, and other major neurophysiological changes. It appears to be more common among Jewish individuals and consanguinous marriages. While it is rare in th...

Reprint requests to: Dr. Te-Chang Wu Department of Radiology, Chi-Mei Foundation Hospital. No. 901, Chung Hwa Road, Yong-Kong, Tainan 710, Taiwan, R.O.C. Three children of unilateral type I Duane’s retract ion syndrome (DRS), aged 8 years, 14 months and 2 years were confirmed by demonstration of absence of ipsilateral abducens nerves on 3D fast imaging employing steady-state acquisition (FIESTA...

Retraction notices appear regularly in many scholarly journals, especially top-tier journals of science and engineering. One disconcerting feature of this emergent genre is evasion of authorship, that is, the deliberate obscuring of who has authored a particular retraction notice. This communication illustrates and discusses problems of evaded authorship of retraction notices. To address these ...

Lesions affecting the dorsal midbrain can result in a constellation of ocular findings such as vertical gaze disturbances, convergence retraction nystagmus, light-near dissociation of pupils, and eyelid retraction. Although bilateral superior oblique palsy can occur after a stroke, its occurrence secondary to nontraumatic brainstem hemorrhage is extremely rare. We report a combination of dorsal...

Pendred's syndrome is defined as a triad of congenital perceptive hearing loss, goiter, and abnormal perchlorate test. Three brothers with Pendred's syndrome [P.S.] are reported. The oldest brother has hearing loss (he has been deaf and mute since childhood) and has a large goiter. A thyroid scan revealed euthyroid multinodular goiter and a perchlorate test was performed, and reported abno...