Factors influencing severity of and recovery from anisometropic amblyopia.

Purpose: To evaluate the correlation between the degree of anisometropia with depth of amblyopia and presence of stereopsis.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of 119 patients treated during 1995-2004 was carried out. All patients had undergone a full ophthalmological examination.

Motor coordination in children with congenital strabismus: effects of late surgery.

Background: Strabismus is one of the most common visual disorders in infancy. While there is a great attention on the effects of the timing of surgery as to the development of binocular vision, little is known about the possible influence of congenital strabismus on perceptual-motor and more generally, on neuromotor development.

Aims: Aim of this study was to investigate perceptual-motor and motor coordination abilities of 19 children with essential congenital esotropia who underwent a late surgery (after 4 years), compared to 23 age-matched controls.

Systemic melanoma metastatic to the retina and vitreous.

Purpose: Report of a case of retinal and vitreous metastases of a systemic melanoma, possibly arising in the lung, that responded favourably to radiotherapy.

Case Report: Retinal and vitreous metastases were demonstrated in a 57-year-old woman during routine follow-up after surgical resection of a melanoma presumed to be a primary pulmonary melanoma. After a 7-week observation period, which confirmed the progressive nature of the intra-ocular lesions, the patient was treated by external beam radiotherapy at a dose of 35 Gy delivered in 14 fractions of 2.