A 5-year-old girl presented to the ophthalmology clinic of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, with a complaint of swelling of the left upper eyelid (Figure 1). The girl’s mother, who accompanied her, claimed that the girl had fallen on the ground a few hours previously. The child had a sudden onset of the lid swelling following the fall, associated with pain around the eyeball. ...

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...

We described the clinical, surgical details and results (motor and sensory) of the retrieving procedure of traumatically avulsed muscles in three patients with no previous history of strabismus or diplopia seen in the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Campinas, Brazil. The slipped muscle portion was reinserted at the original insertion and under the remaining stump, which was sut...

1 Professor of Neuroanatomy, Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 2 Clinical Assistant, Clinic of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 3 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Art History, Department of Fine Art, Megatrend University, Belgrade, Serbia 4 Associate Professor, Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine,...

Cryogens have been used to freeze living tissue for the purpose of treating benign and malignant lesions. Within the last century, ophthalmologists have found cryotherapy to be useful in treating a variety of ocular pathologies. Here, we review the history of cryotherapy, its introduction to the field of ophthalmology, its proposed mechanism of action, and its current applications in treating s...

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...

purpose : to present a case of typical cogan syndrome (cs) and the efficacy of topical cyclosporine a in the treatment case report : a 38-year-old woman with history of dizziness, loss of bilateral hearing and tinnitus in both ears who developed bilateral keratitis and on biomicroscopic examination, subepithelial stromal infiltration, corneal vascularization was observed in both eyes. anterior ...

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 ...