BACKGROUND Analysis of 52 eyes with high-risk retinoblastoma managed with postenucleation adjuvant chemotherapy using vincristine sulfate, etoposide phosphate, and carboplatin showed no evidence of systemic metastasis in any case during a mean (range) follow-up of 66 (12-202) months. PURPOSE To determine the efficacy of postenucleation adjuvant chemotherapy with vincristine, etoposide, and ca...

Congenital iris ectropion is a rare condition; non-progressive anomaly characterised by the presence of iris pigment epithelium on the anterior surface of the iris stroma and is frequently associated with anterior iris insertion, dysgenesis of the drainage angle and glaucoma. This paper describes unusual case of bilateral case of congenital iris ectropion in adult patient with pupillary abnorma...

Dear Editor, Recently, we diagnosed a 50-year-old woman as having reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) of the uvea, and herein we report that this is the first diagnosis of this condition in a Korean patient. The patient was referred to the ophthalmology clinic with blurry vision due to choroidal mass-like lesions of the right eye for 1 month. Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) of the right eye wa...

purpose : choroidal melanoma is the most common primary ocular malignancy among the adult population. authors investigated the clinical findings, histopathologic features, types of retinal detachment and the precise anatomic origin of enucleated eyes for primary ocular malignant melanoma in shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) hospitals between 1990 and 2005. methods : this was a cross ...

Lentigo maligna has an extensive and neoplastic character. It typically progresses slowly and may eventually develop into an invasive melanoma, which is called lentigo maligna melanoma. Ocular melanoma is the second most common type of melanoma. The uvea is the most common site of origin of ocular melanomas, while conjunctival melanoma accounts for about 1-5% of cases. In this article, we descr...

—A. new species of giant pigeon, Ducula david, is described from an archeological excavation on Uvea Island, Wallis group. The new species was contemporaneous with early Lapita culture. Ducula david is related to, but larger than, either D. pacifica or D. galeata. It was sympatric with D. pacifica and provides further evidence that more than one species of Ducula co-existed on small Pacific isl...

Both alpha- and beta-adrenergic antagonists have been utilized in an atempt to discern the site of action of prostaglandin (PG) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the eye. Both alpha- and beta-adrenergic antagonists (alpha-antagonists, phentolamine and phenoxybenzamine; beta-antagonists, propranolol and sotalol) cuased a dose-dependent reduction in intraocular pressure and blood pressure and inc...

This study was conducted to identify the occurrence and types of trauma-related ocular disorders in 114 birds belonging 39 species. For this purpose, both detailed neurological examination ophthalmologic examina-tion results admitted our clinics with a trauma history or findings are presented. Thirty cases were evaluated suffer from eye injuries. Uvea lesions (n=12) most frequent disorder traum...