Ophthalmology’s Guide for Authors includes a policy regarding prior and repetitive publication that states: “The Journal will not consider manuscripts that have appeared, in part or in total, in other publications, except in special circumstances app…
Month: June 2013
Fire Risk During Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery
A high oxygen concentration was reported as the major risk factor behind 74% of all surgical fires. Given that surgical fires are a dreaded complication of combining electrocautery and oxygen use, minimizing increases in oxygen concentration above atmo…
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Orbital Cerebrospinal Fluid Space in Glaucoma
Wang et al present an interesting, well-designed study on intracranial and intraocular pressure (IOP). Based on standardized measurements with magnetic resonance imaging, they demonstrated a narrower orbital optic nerve (ON) subarachnoid space (SAS) in…
This Issue At A Glance
Bothun等人(p. 1227) 发现1-6岁婴幼儿患者于先天性白内障术后植入人工晶体(IOL)并不能防止斜视的发展。然而，对于早期摘除白内障的患儿斜视发生可能性低。作者进行了一项婴幼儿无晶体眼治疗…
Recognition of Henle’s Fiber Layer on OCT Images
Monés et al made an important observation about how important is to recognize the normal anatomy of the Henle’s fiber layer in the optical coherence tomography images (OCT). Spectral-domain (SD) OCT offers the possibility of evaluating retinal archi…
A Simple Vista en Este Número
Bothun y otros (p. 1227) determinaron que el uso de un lente intraocular (IOL) en infantes de 1 a 6 meses no evita el desarrollo temprano del estrabismo después de cirugía de catarata congénita. Sin embargo, hay menos probabilidad de que se desarrol…
Editorial Board
This Issue At A Glance
Bothun et al (p. 1227) have found that intraocular lens (IOL) placement in infants aged 1 month to 6 months does not prevent the early development of strabismus following congenital cataract surgery. However, strabismus is less likely to develop in inf…
Author reply
We thank Hong et al for their interest in our recent study describing the characteristics of anterior segment herpes simplex in a large cohort of children. We are in complete agreement that data generated from randomized clinical trials are desirable. …
Atlas of Clinical and Surgical Orbital Anatomy, Second Edition
Media Type: Textbook, with searchable full text online Synopsis: Orbital anatomy has long been the bane of existence for eye surgeons, because of the difficulty in visualizing and conceptualizing its three dimensions. Yet a thorough understanding for…
Retinoblastoma
Media Type: Textbook Synopsis: The diagnosis and treatment of children with retinoblastoma have been incredibly successful since the past half century in improving survival and cure, eye preservation and, occasionally, functional vision in the affect…
Visual Field Staging Systems in Glaucoma and the Activities of Daily Living
Kulkarni and associates present an important study by correlating different scoring systems of visual field defects in glaucoma patients with their vision-related functional impairment. Not only did they implement the most commonly used questionnaire i…
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We thank DR Hirneiss for his interest in our study. We agree that the absolute value of the difference in correlation coefficients was small when comparing visual field (VF) scores with the total Assessment of Disability Related to Vision score and the…
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Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology; Wills Eye Institute; Pediatric Ophthalmology
Media Type: Book series Synopsis: The overwhelming sea of new knowledge added to the field of pediatric ophthalmology, constantly, makes it difficult for clinicians to grasp every single detail in the field. This is particularly true for clinicians i…
Research roundup: Questioning money-saving value of kids’ preventive dentistry, weight loss
Although early preventive dental visits are widely recommended for children, it is unclear whether they reduce future dental visits or costs.
Potential Medical Applications For Stretchable, Transparent Graphene-Metal Nanowire Electrode
A hybrid transparent and stretchable electrode could open the new way for flexible displays, solar cells, and even electronic devices fitted on a curvature substrate such as soft eye contact lenses, by the UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and …