purpose: to present a case of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (pxe) with ocular involvement and visual loss. case report: a 36 year old male presented with severe visual loss since 2 years ago. on funduscopy peau d’orange appearance and angioid streaks were evident. the diagnosis of pxe was confirmed by skin biopsy of papular lesions on the neck. conclusion:  ocular findings may be helpful in the diag...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum. Ocular involvement can occur at any time, and it may affect 10% of patients in secondary stage, from 2% to 5% tertiary stage. Uveitis most common presentation ocular syphilis, affecting 0.4% 8% with systemic disease. Chorioretinitis posterior alteration. We present case 53-year-old male patient, presenting...

are discussed. Nevertheless the book is a very interesting one and draws attention to an aspect of disease which is far too much neglected, and by no one more than by the Specialist. The necessity of treating patients, not diseases, is too often lost sight of. As the author well puts it?"Too much attention is being paid to the germ, and far too little to the soil on which it falls," and he poin...

The Ocular Disease Ontology (ODO) is an ontology designed to represent ocular diseases for both clinical and research purposes. This constitutes an effort to build an ontology that represents, to the fullest possible extent, ocular diseases. ODO makes use of the following: Cell Ontology (CL), Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS), Neuronal CL, Gene Ontology (GO), Uberanatomy Ontology (UBE...