A comparison of colour micrographs obtained with a charged couple device (CCD) camera and a 35-mm camera.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if micrographs produced with a colour charged couple device (CCD) camera were comparable in quality to micrographs obtained with a 35-mm colour film camera. The Axiocam (Zeiss, Jena, Germany) CCD camera produced images of 3900 x 3090 pixels.

Methods: Each picture in a series of 50 pairs of film and digital micrographs was rated independently by each of three observers on the categories of colour, detail and overall impression.

Metastases in the ophthalmic region in Denmark 1969-98. A histopathological study.

Purpose: To evaluate the patterns of origin and anatomical localization of histologically verified metastases in the ophthalmic region in Denmark during 1969-98, and to compare the findings with those of a similar study for the period 1944-68.

Methods: All metastatic lesions presented at the Eye Pathology Institute, University of Copenhagen during the period 1968-98 were investigated.

Results: Metastases were found in 81 specimens from the eye and eye region in 76 patients (32 men, 44 women).