Ophthalmology is a medical profession with tradition in teaching that has developed throughout history. Although ophthalmologists are generally considered to only prescribe contact lenses, and they handle more than half of eye-related enhancements, diagnoses, treatments. The training qualified carried out under the traditional settings, where there supervisor student, based on use animal eyes o...

THIS new textbook, which is based on the current teaching and practice of Moorfields Eye Hospital and its academic offspring, the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, will be welcomed by all those whose interest is in acquiring a thorough basic knowledge of the subject. The field to be covered is extensive and the result is that discursive forays and elegant elaborations have been eschewed. Th...

purpose: to describe a case with a rare complication of posterior chamber intraocular lens (pc-iol) implantation in a patient who had undergone extracapsular cataract extraction (ecce) two years before case report: a 80-year-old diabetic woman presented with an exposed pc-iol in her left eye with a history of mechanical trauma. slit-lamp examination revealed an extruded pc-iol lied on the anter...

purpose : to report a patient with retained broken probe tip in the false passage site after nasolacrimal duct (nld) probing case report : a 18-month-baby with epiphora and a nontender mass in the site of lacrimal sac was visited in clinic. she had a history of probing six months ago by another ophthalmologist. the probing was repeated successfully but the mass size didn’t change. the mass was ...

On November 29, 1949, Harold Ridley implanted the first intraocular lens (IOL). This marked the beginning of a major change in the practice of ophthalmology and, for Ridley, the beginning of an era of inspiration, reward and challenge, unfortunately marred by the disdain and discourteous actions of many colleagues within the academic establishment in Europe and the United States. By the late 19...

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Univer­ sity of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Reprint requests to Hermann M. Burian, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. recumbent St. Sebastian, being treated by St. Irene. It was a night piece with the light coming from torches to the left and above,...

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University Medical Faculty 2 Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University Medical Faculty 3 Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University Medical Faculty 4 Medical Doctor, Department of Ophthalmology, Aksaray State Hospital 5 Medical Doctor, Department of Ophthalm...