purpose : to investigate the risk factors and causes for blindness in behcet’s disease (bd). methods : in this preliminary retrospective case series we have investigated 27 bd patients (54 eyes), legally blind (vision 0.1 or less) at least in one eye at the last visit (2006), and compared them with 54 eyes of 27 non-blind patients (control group), matched individually and consequently in terms ...

introduction: retinal vein occlusion  is a common vascular disorder disrupting vision. two basic types of rvo are branch retinal vein occlusion and central retinal vein occlusion (crvo).  retinal vein occlusion is a multifactor process including systemic illness and local retinal factors.rvo may be associated with atherosclerotic risk factors. we analyzed the role of 2 dimensional transthoracic...

a multi‑parameter quantification method was implemented to quantify retinal vascular injuries in microscopic images of clinically relevant eye diseases. this method was applied to wholemount retinal trypsin digest images of diabetic akita/+, and bcl‑2 knocked out mice models. five unique features of retinal vasculature were extracted to monitor early structural changes and retinopathy, as well ...

although acrometastases are rare but clinically they are considered important. their etiology is quite different from the metastases to other sites; bronchogenic carcinoma is by far the most frequent case. the prognosis is always similar to metastatic bronchial cancer with an average survival of three months. treatment may involve distal digital amputation or antalgic radiotherapy. the main dif...

sister mary joseph nodule or sister mary joseph sign refers to a palpable nodule bulging into the umbilicus as a result of metastasis of a malignant cancer in the pelvis or abdomen. a rare case of sister mary joseph nodule, manifesting as ascites, cachexia and bleeding per rectum, is presented without any primary tumor despite extensive search for the same. normal 0 false false false microsofti...

PURPOSE To describe the cell of origin, tumor progression, light and electron microscopic appearance, immunohistochemical properties, and response to frequently used anticancer therapies in two transgenic models of intraocular melanoma. METHODS Two lines of transgenic mice that develop pigmented intraocular tumors were produced with the SV40 T and t antigens under the control of the mouse tyr...