Using the RETeval Device in Healthy Children to Establish Normative Electroretinogram Values.

Purpose: To provide normative data of full-field electro-retinogram (ERG) responses in the pediatric population using the RETeval ERG device (LKC Technologies, Inc) in healthy children without evidence of retinal disease.

Methods: This was a single-site cross-sectional study of healthy pediatric patients with normal dilated fundus examinations and no known retinal diseases. Participants were recruited to undergo dilated full-field ERG using the handheld RETeval device.

Malignant melanoma presenting as amelanotic caruncular lesion in a child.

Conjunctival melanoma is a rare malignant neoplasm that can present in childhood in any part of the conjunctiva. The infrequency with which conjunctival melanoma is encountered in childhood caruncular lesions makes it a formidable but important aspect of the differential diagnosis. We report the case of a 10-year-old boy who presented with a left caruncular lesion.

Insights into uveitis in association with spondyloarthritis from a large patient survey.

Background: Uveitis is reported to be the most common extra-articular feature in spondyloarthritis (SpA).

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between uveitis and SpA in a cohort identified from a survey.

Methods: Eight hundred sixty-three respondents completed a survey conducted by the Spondylitis Association of America.

Plus disease diagnosis in retinopathy of prematurity: vascular tortuosity as a function of distance from optic disk.

Purpose: To examine vascular tortuosity as a function of distance from the optic disk in infants with retinopathy of prematurity.

Methods: Thirty-four wide-angle retinal images from infants with retinopathy of prematurity were reviewed by 22 experts. A reference standard for each image was defined as the diagnosis (plus vs.