purpose: to report a case of proteus syndrome with new ophthalmic findings not reported elsewhere. patient and findings: the patient is an 18-year-old girl with red lesions on hand and foot from birth and disproportionate growth of right upper and lower limbs from the first year of life. on examination, the patient has enlargement of the right upper and lower limb, macrodactyly, vascular malfor...

PURPOSE To draw attention to the importance of methodological standards when carrying out evaluations of ophthalmic diagnostic tests by reviewing the extent of compliance with these standards in reports of evaluations published within the ophthalmic literature. METHODS Twenty published evaluations of ophthalmic screening/diagnostic tests or technologies were independently assessed by two revi...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to assess the frequency and pattern of ophthalmic tumours in Northern Pakistan. METHODS This study included all ophthalmic tumours diagnosed during a one year period (January to December 1992). RESULTS One hundred and fourteen ophthalmic tumours were diagnosed at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) and Pathology Department of the Army Medi...