Paralytic strabismus as a manifestation of lyme borreliosis.

Lyme disease is a multi-system organ disorder caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. Although ocular manifestations have been reported, these remain a rare feature of the disease. This report shows a 49-years old patient that has been bitten by a tick and as consequence of which developed symptoms of the Lyme disease.

Diagnostic and therapeutic doubts in retrobulbar neuritis in children.

Retrobulbar neuritis is often very complicated clinical entity. The most common cause of retrobulbar neuritis is demyelinating disease of CNS. This report is to express some other uncommon causes of it.

Clinical importance of the lens opacities classification system III (LOCS III) in phacoemulsification.

The aim of this study was to compare the correlation of features of cataracts graded by the Lens Opacities Classification System, version III (LOCS III) with recorded operative characteristics during the phacoemulsification. The retrospective study included 245 cases operated on by a single surgeon from October 2003 to March 2004. The cataract was graded at the biomicroscope using the 4 grading scales of the lens opacities classification system, version III (LOCS III); nuclear opalescence (NO), nuclear color (CO), cortical cataract (C) and posterior subcapsular cataract (P).