OBJECTIVE To study the barriers to effective screening, early detection and treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity leading to advanced disease. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Tertiary eye care hospital in northern India. PARTICIPANTS 115 babies with bilateral stage 5 ROP identified amongst 354 preterm infants examined over a one year period. METHODS Information regarding gestati...

OBJECTIVES To identify patients with retinoblastoma whose conditions were diagnosed at the age of 1 month or younger and to describe their clinical features (including ocular and patient survival) and the development of second nonocular tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective study of 1831 patients. The cumulative incidence of second cancer development was analyzed using the Kaplan-Meie...

purpose : to introduce a novel classification system for the extent of choroid invasion and to analyze the incidence of histopathologic risk factors (hrfs) in the patients with retinoblastoma in china methods : the clinical data of 104 enucleated eyes diagnosed with retinoblastoma were retrospectively reviewed, and the pathological re-examination of the enucleated eyes was conducted. results : ...

Retinoblastoma is a rare eye tumor of childhood that arises in the retina. It is the most common intraocular malignancy of infancy and childhood; with an incidence of 1/15,000–20,000 live births. The two most frequent symptoms revealing retinoblastoma are leukocoria and strabismus. Iris rubeosis, hypopyon, hyphema, buphthalmia, orbital cellulites and exophthalmia may also be observed. Sixty per...

To the Editors: A male infant born at 36 weeks of gestation with a birth weight of 2,500 grams presented to our department at 37 weeks’ post-conceptional age. The infant was not admitted in any neonatal intensive care unit, had not received oxygen, and did not have a history of neonatal sepsis. He was otherwise healthy. The infant was brought for a retinal check-up because his elder sibling was...

Krohn et al describe a novel photographic technique using near-infrared (NIR) transillumination to detect peripheral anterior choroidal and ciliary body melanomas not visible on slit lamp examination. The described imaging technique uses a broad spectrum background light source to illuminate the fundus and external photography with a 720–1100 nm NIR filter to evaluate anterior uveal masses, per...

A study was conducted to see the association of retinoblastoma with age, bilaterism, Tumor size, site, grades, involvement of anterior chamber, iris, ciliary body, choroid, sclera and optic nerve, and extraocular extension. This was a retrospective descriptive analytical study. The records of the Institute of Ophthalmology, King Edward Medical University/Mayo hospital, Lahore: Pakistan January ...

Morning glory syndrome or rising sun is rare congenital anomaly of the papilla by emergence of the optic nerve in the eye. It is sometimes associated with serious anomalies of the central nervous system. It reaches preferentially girls and most often unilateral. The circumstances of the discovery may be strabismus, amblyopia, nystagmus, leucocoria or refractive disorder. This syndrome may also ...

Although cancer in children is rare, it is the second most common cause of childhood mortality in developed countries. It often presents with nonspecific symptoms similar to those of benign conditions, leading to delays in the diagnosis and initiation of appropriate treatment. Primary care physicians should have a raised index of suspicion and explore the possibility of cancer in children who h...

A 6-year-old patient was referred to our ophthalmology service because of an ocular deviation (esotropia) on the right eye for 3 years. Best-corrected visual acuity in right eye and 20/20 in left eye. According to the Krimsky test, the patient showed 15 prism dioptres esotropia in right eye. No changes were observed in biomicroscopy of both eyes and funduscopy of left eye was normal. An optical...