Microtropia: clinical findings and management for the primary eye care practitioner.

Background: Microtropia is a small-angle strabismus with a highly developed degree of binocular cooperation. It is a unilateral comitant horizontal deviation less than 5 prism diopters (PD) in the presence of anomalous retinal correspondence (ARC), amblyopia, some motor fusion, and reduced stereoacuity.

Case Report: A 7-year-old white girl presented for a second opinion concerning unexplained vision loss in the left eye.

Child development and refractive errors in preschool children.

Purpose: Many parents are concerned about their child's development. The purpose of this study is to determine whether parental concerns about overall development are associated with significant refractive errors among urban preschool children.

Methods: A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of ocular disorders in white and African American children aged 6 through 71 months in Baltimore, Maryland.

Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy: a case report.

Background: Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR) is a disorder of unknown etiology with a predilection for young women. AZOOR is characterized by an acute loss of one or more zones of outer retinal function with a corresponding loss of visual field in one or both eyes. Patients present with photopsia, variable funduscopic changes, and abnormal electroretinogram (ERG) findings.