Congenital esotropia and the risk of mental illness by early adulthood.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether children with congenital esotropia (CET) are more likely than controls to develop mental illness by early adulthood.

Design: Retrospective, population-based cohort.

Participants: Children (aged <19 years) diagnosed with CET while residing in Olmsted County, Minnesota, from January 1, 1965, to December 31, 1994, and their 1-to-1 non-strabismic birth- and gender-matched controls.

Is the incidence of infantile esotropia declining?: a population-based study from Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1965 to 1994.

Objective: To investigate the incidence of infantile esotropia from a defined population in the United States over a 30-year period. Recent reports from the United Kingdom have suggested that strabismus or strabismus surgery is occurring less frequently today than in previous years.

Methods: The medical records of all patients diagnosed with infantile esotropia within Olmsted County, Minnesota, from January 1, 1965, through December 31, 1994, were retrospectively reviewed.

Long-term follow-up of congenital esotropia in a population-based cohort.

Purpose: To report the long-term outcomes of a population-based cohort of children diagnosed with congenital esotropia during a 30-year period.

Methods: The medical records of all patients diagnosed with congenital esotropia as residents of Olmsted County, MN, from January 1, 1965, through December 31, 1994, were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: A total of 130 children were diagnosed during the 30-year period at a median age of 7.

Episcleral melanoma as a complication of ocular melanocytosis.

Background: Primary episcleral melanoma is exceedingly rare. We report a case of primary episcleral melanoma in an eye with ocular melanocytosis.

Methods: Interventional case report with presentation of clinical photographs and histopathology.

Correlation of grating acuity with letter recognition acuity in children with albinism.

Purpose: This study was undertaken to determine whether grating acuity in early childhood can be used as a predictor of letter recognition acuity in patients with albinism.

Methods: In this retrospective study, we compared the binocular grating acuities of children with albinism (30 at age 1, 29 at age 2, and 19 at age 3) to their letter recognition acuity at age 4-6 years.

Results: Mean binocular grating acuity was 2.