being mindful of the possibilities for types of scientific communications can help a researcher in choosing the right format for presentation and reporting. original research articles, case reports, and review articles are the most common types of manuscripts submitted to and published by iranian medical journals. but not all of the scholarly communications could necessarily be fit into these k...

in this issue of iranian journal of ophthalmology (irjo) han yue et al1 from china have presented a very interesting investigation on “histopathologic risk factors of retinoblastoma: a retrospective study of 104 enucleated eyes” which we are very grateful of the authors. before indicating few points about this article and their pathologic classification it is worthwhile to mention the “proceedi...

gholam ali peyman, md was recognized for his great achievement on february 2013 when he was awarded with the honor of being named as one of the most distinguished in the list of 12 top researcher recipients of the national medal of technology and innovations in the united states. there were twelve highly accomplished inventors in the list of national medal of technology and innovation. scientis...

november arrives and as each year the iranian congress of ophthalmology organized by the iranian society of ophthalmology, a national and very popular re::::union:::: of the iranian ophthalmologists and some colleagues from the surrounding countries. this year a new congress center (aboreyhan international conference center, shahid beheshti university) at north of tehran has been chosen for thi...

concerning the article on ”cataract surgery in albucasis manuscript” pages 75-76 which is published in this issue of iranian journal of ophthalmology (irjo) a few points took my attention worth mentioning.     the science of ophthalmology and cataract surgery was developed 6,000 years ago, not in egypt but at mesopotamian region. the babylonians mastered this science 2,000 years before the glor...

the europeans consider roger bacon as the inventor of spectacles, and the 13th century, as the beginning of using lenses as spectacles. it can truly be said that the lenses had not been born all of a sudden then. it may be concluded that the lenses had been available long before that time.   we are all familiar with quartz, a transparent volcanic stone that begins its journey in the rivers afte...

this paper attempts to investigate the capability of the numerical finite element method for the removal of the regional effects from the observed gravity data from the dehnow anticline. from a geological point of view, the dehnow area is a part of the fars sedimentary basin south-east iran. the khamy formation and bangestan group are the oldest geological structures in the area that have outcr...

in the retrospective investigation titled “risk factors evaluation of threshold retinopathy of prematurity” at a tertiary ophthalmic center in tehran, iran, the authors have studied 859 premature neonates during one year (2008-2009). 791 eyes have had retinopathy of prematurity (rop) and 7.4% of them presented threshold retinopathy (trop). the investigators aim has been to present and compare t...