Eye trauma and blindness are common in the United States, with an incidence of over 2 million cases/year and 25 million blind adults, respectively. However, literature is surprisingly scarce on the potential confounding effect of eye trauma or blindness on the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis (MG), an autoimmune neuromuscular disease in which fluctuating ocular symptoms are the most distinguishin...

Retinoblastoma was clinically diagnosed in 38 patients in the University Hospital between 1968 to 1988. White pupil or cat's eye reflex, found in 25 patients, was the most common symptom. Four patients refused any form of treatment. Of the 27 histopathologically confirmed cases, 16 were males and 11 were females. There was no ethnic group predominance, although a male preponderance was observed...

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a benign pseudoneoplastic inflammatory condition with the potential for persistent local growth and recurrence that rarely affects the orbit. We report a very rare case of anterior orbital IMT in a child who presented with gradually progressive mass in left eye for 16 months. Ocular examination showed a cauliflower like exophytic mass at 360 degrees o...

A case of bilateral primary choroidal melanoma is described in a 51-year-old white male. Histological confirmation followed enucleation of the left eye and local excision in the right. A careful systemic evaluation failed to demonstrate any other primary or secondary melanomata. This case is the first bilateral primary choroidal melanoma reported in the United Kingdom and the first to be descri...

Our case represents a unique occurrence of pigmented choroidal tumor that clinically appeared as choroidal melanoma and was treated accordingly. At the same time, while evaluating the patient for systemic metastases of uveal melanoma, she was diagnosed as having lung carcinoma. Events that led to the enucleation of the eye enabled a histological diagnosis: pulmonary adenocarcinoma. In our case,...

Fungal endophthalmitis after surgery or trauma is uncommon. 1-7 We are not aware of any report in the literature ofScytalidium dimidiatum (under the name S synanamorph subspecies of Hendersonula toruloidea) causing eye infection.>" This paper reports a severe case of S dimidiatum -endopthalmitis following trauma. Despite intraocular amphotericin B, miconazole, topical natamycin, and extensive s...

We have reinvestigated an important issue in the amphibian immunology that has not been settled for years since the pioneer work of Triplett, concerning the necessity of being exposed to organ-specific antigens early in development. It was found that syngeneic Lenses were rejected by frogs, Xenopus laevis, that had been enucleated (eye removed) during early larval life. This rejection did not o...

This report describes the clinical, light microscopical, and electron microscopical features of a metastasis from a bronchial carcinoid tumour occurring in a 29-year-old white woman. The eye lesions was diagnosed 30months after resection of the primary pulmonary tumour. Ophthalmoscopically the patient was observed to have a solid choroidal mass. Enucleation was carried out because of the possib...