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Top-Ten-Must-Not-Forget-In-Strabismus-Evaluation
1. External face features affecting the eye position Facial asymmetry and palpebral fissure shape changes alter the ocular position, possibly due to extra-ocular muscle heterotopy The common extra-ocular features affecting ocular position are craniosynostosis, hydrocephalus, facial fracture, mongoloid and anti-mongoloid slant, telecanthus, congenital superior oblique palsy (face fuller on the affe...Read More
It is a human tendency to compare everything with day-to-day life happening, objects around them. Proverbs are one such example; they give some form of life advice with examples of very commonly occurring incidents/things in our daily life. In medical science, we often come across such analogical expressions that had been picked up from some common objects. Because of the resemblance with the morp...Read More
Ten Pearls for Treating A Case of Retinopathy of Prematurity
Introduction Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a potentially blinding retinal vasoproliferative disorder affecting premature and low birth weight infants. With improving survival of preterm infants with lower birth weights and gestational ages, ROP is reaching epidemic proportions in many middle- income countries.1 Although a majority of infants would develop a mild self-limiting disease, some c...Read More
Visual Fields in Neuro-Ophthalmology : 10 Pearls for the Postgraduates
1. Is there something we can do before ordering a visual field in neuro-ophthalmology? Confrontation visual field testing is an important clinical examination, especially when it comes to neuro-ophthalmology cases. A simple test can give us clues as to what may be the underlying cause of patients’ symptoms. The test is done presuming the visual field of the examiner is normal. Both the patient and...Read More