S he has never been seen in our office before but called this morning wanting an appointment " right away " for her Pap smear and physical. Maria is 32 years old and is employed as a housekeeper at a local hotel. She has had three children and is healthy. As I listen to her I learn she is an immigrant from Guatemala, that her children are back home, and that she moved here 4 years ago to join h...

A 42-year-old woman presented with loss of vision and progressive proptosis in her right eye from one year before. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/30 and 20/20 in her right and left eyes, respectively. A mild relative afferent pupillary defect existed on the right side. Exophthalmometric readings were 27 and 20 mm in the right and left eyes, respectively with no ocular deviation or restrict...

Patient: A 9-year-old Hispanic female. Cause for referral 3/2000: management of uncontrolled glaucoma Chief complain: pain, redness (OU), decreased visual acuity OD>OS and severe headaches Past ocular history: a five-year history of bilateral panuveitis. She was treated with topical steroids only, without improvement of the ocular inflammation. Two years earlier, she underwent trabeculectomy wi...

Purpose. To report the long-term results of corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) with riboflavin and ultraviolet-A irradiation in 4 eyes of 2 patients affected by pellucid marginal degeneration (PMD). Methods. This study involved the retrospective analysis of 4 eyes of 2 patients with PMD that underwent CXL treatment. Of the eyes, three had only CXL treatment and one had CXL treatment after an ...

A young nurse, undertaking a working holiday in Australia, sees a 5-year-old Aboriginal girl while doing a locum in a remote coastal community of the Northern Territory. The young girl has been brought in by her grandmother because she has discharge coming from her eyes. From the notes, the nurse sees that the child has had multiple presentations for ear and skin infections but is otherwise wel...

This report describes a case of retinal racemose hemangioma that first presented as vitreous hemorrhage. The authors present the 47-year-old woman with sudden 5-day painless visual loss in her left eye. At visit, best-correct acuities were 20/20 right eye and hand motions eyes. Ultrasonography showed an attached retina massive Pars plana vitrectomy was performed dilatation large vessels [...]

The explosive power of people’s secrets and lies will once again take center stage in season two of ABC’s hit drama, “Secrets and Lies.” No matter who you are, everyone has secrets and everybody tells lies. What will people do to keep their most intimate, devastating indiscretions from ruining their lives? The unflappable and formidable Detective Andrea Cornell (Juliette Lewis) is back. She is ...

CASE REPORT A 25-year-old woman noticed a painless yellow-orange mass on her right eye. Her visual acuity was 20/20 in both eyes, and a slit-lamp examination showed a yellow-orange mass located at the superior limbus of the right eye. No other ocular abnormalities were observed. DISCUSSION Surgical excision was carried out and the lesion was sent for histological examination. This showed a gr...

On 31st August 1897, a woman, Puma by name, of the barber caste, between 30 and 40 years of age, came to me on account of blindness. She was in a state of extreme emaciation, and complained of excessive thirst. As she was suffering from the scarcity. prevailing in the district, and was in a condition of destitution, she was unable to say whether her hunger was more than could be accounted for b...

A young patient, 10 years of age (Fig. 1), was referred to us by her dentist for the correction of an excessive overjet, caused by finger sucking. She presented with delayed growth and short stature and was being treated for these conditions at a hospital facility. Initially it was difficult to examine her because she was very apprehensive. The extraoral examination revealed mildly atypical fac...