AIMS/BACKGROUND Posterior capsular opacification is the most common postoperative complication of extracapsular cataract surgery. The purpose of this study was to attempt to inhibit this secondary cataract formation by using mitomycin (an antimitotic drug). METHODS A solution containing mitomycin was used to perform hydrodissection (with a 5 minute pause) during extracapsular lens extraction ...

for identifying drought tolerance genotypes 29 wheat genotypes as cultivar factor and irrigation and non irrigation treatments as an irrigation factor in a split block design with 3 blocks were planted at a research filed of college of agriculture, tehran university, iran. there was a low and non significant correlation (r=0.35) between yield at non irrigating (ys) and yield at irrigating (yp) ...

Material and Methods: TASS occurring after uneventful coaxial phaco during May/June 2008 in eye department, Combined Military Hospital Kharian, were analyzed retrospectively in this case series. Clinical features, response to treatment and possible causes were checked during the outbreak (including intracamerally given drugs, irrigating solutions, intraocular lenses and washing/ sterilization t...