Parent involvement (PI) in school is associated with more positive academic performance and social competence in children. However, there are inadequacies in current measures of PI and a need for a better understanding of predictors of PI. In this study, measures were obtained from a normative sample of 387 children in kindergarten and first grade from high-risk neighborhoods in 4 different sit...

Three cases of craniofacial fibrous dysplasia are reported, all presenting to the ophthalmologist first. They all had ocular complications due either to direct involvement of the orbital bones or to secondary complications. Sphenoidal mucocele is added to the other complications previously reported, and accordingly a classification of the various ways that fibrous dysplasia can affect the ocula...

Unlike the joints, ocular involvement with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is most often asymptomatic; yet, the inflammation can cause serious morbidity with loss of vision. Scheduled slit-lamp examinations by an ophthalmologist at specific intervals can detect ocular disease early, and prompt treatment can prevent vision loss.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are mucocutaneous diseases featured by severe sequelae high mortality rates. In addition to ocular involvement, gynecological involvement is often observed in patients with TEN possible occurrence of partial or complete adhesions the labia majora, minora, vaginal walls as sequelae. Although severely affect patients’ quality lif...

BACKGROUND Ocular involvement in melioidosis is rare and has devastating outcomes. Although there have been few reports on the condition, Khon Kaen, a city in northeast Thailand, has been called the "capital of melioidosis" due to the high prevalence of the condition in the region. We retrospectively reviewed all admitted cases of melioidosis with ocular involvement from the two largest hospita...

Introduction Axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is an inflammatory disease that predominantly affects vertebral and sacroiliac joint. Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory multi-system disease associated with the formation of non-caseating granulomas within involved systems (1). Both diseases can involve ocular manifestations of which anterior uveitis are common feature. Articular involvement has been repo...

The influence of patient age on various features of ocular toxoplasmosis has been a subject of study for many years. The age at which Toxoplasma gondii infection occurs in different populations is related to socioeconomic factors and studies suggest that ocular toxoplasmosis is a more severe disease at the extremes of age. The prevalence of ocular involvement is markedly different between indiv...

LYMPHOMATOUS tumours involving the lids and orbit have been recognized and repeatedly reported in the literature for many years; intra-ocular involvement on the contrary is rare if the lymphomatous infiltrations associated with lymphatic leukaemia are excluded. Kukain (1935) and Triebenstein (1920) have each described a case of uveal lymphosarcoma complicated by secondary glaucoma, and other is...

PURPOSE Discs large (dlg), scribble (scrib), and lethal giant larvae (lgl) are major suppressor genes in Drosophila melanogaster. They encode proteins that regulate cell polarity and cell proliferation in Drosophila and mammals. However, their basic oncogenic roles have not yet been established in mouse epithelial ocular cancer. We evaluated the potential implication of these proteins in tumori...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at presenting the profile of ocular lesions observed in the in-mates on multidrug treatment, of a leprosy rehabilitation centre in Nigeria. DESIGN Cross-sectional. METHOD One hundred patients were selected by systematic random sampling. Sixty-nine had ocular involvement and were the subjects of this study. The age range was 15 to 80 years with a mean age of 51...