AIMS To estimate the magnitude and the causes of blindness through a community based nationwide survey in Oman. This was conducted in 1996-7. METHODS A stratified cluster random sampling procedure was used to select 12 400 people. The WHO/PBD standardised survey methodology was used, with suitable adaptation. The major causes of blindness were identified among those found blind. RESULTS A t...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical characteristics of multiple sclerosis (MS) seen in Oman and compare it with those seen in the Arabian peninsula, the rest of Asia and the Western world. METHODS A hospital based case descriptive study of MS patients, seen at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in the Sultanate of Oman, between June 1990- June 2000. RESULTS We saw a total of 30 patients durin...

Neural tumors composed of Pacinian corpuscles are rare and have only occasionally been reported in the literature. All such lesions, which have been reported to date, have been benign. One such lesion described here presented as a painful lesion on the right hand in a 17-year-old Omani female. There was history of trap door injury 7 years back involving the wrist, thumb and index finger. The pa...

The present report describes outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic disease in domestic rabbits. The provisional diagnosis was reached by feature of postmortem lesions and result of experimental inoculation of liver homogenate in adult and juvenile albino laboratory rabbits. The presence of etiologic agent in the homogenate from spontaneous and experimentally infected rabbits was demonstrated by agglut...

1 Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320 Pakistan 2 The Foundation Department Sur University College P.O. Box 440 P.C 411, Sur, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Abstract: The concept of quasi-coincidence of fuzzy point with a fuzzy subset has considered. By using this idea, the notion of (, )-fuzzy hyperideal in a semihyperring introduced and consequently, a generalizat...

C. Yang, Z. V. Vardeny, A. Köhler, M. Wohlgenannt,* M. K. Al-Suti, and M. S. Khan University of Utah, Physics Department, 115 S 1400 E, Suite 201, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0830, USA Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3OHE, United Kingdom and Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik, 14469 Potsdam, Germany Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Univer...

Allele frequency distributions of nine short tandem repeat (STR) loci, D3S1358, vWA, FGA, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D5S818, D7S820, and D13S317, HLA-DQA1 and polymarker (PM) loci were studied in a sample population from Sultanate of Oman, Middle East. Blood samples were collected from 162 unrelated individuals. For all STR, HLA-DQA1 and PM loci, no deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, bas...

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality in women, with elevated incidence in developing countries. This retrospective study included all 122 patients diagnosed with breast cancer from January 2003 to December 2008 in the Sultanate of Oman. Age at presentation was 47.41 years (SD±12.88), with one-third of patients younger than 40 years. The majority of patients presente...