Visual acuity in children with glaucoma.

Purpose: To investigate the risk factors that influence outcome of visual function in children with glaucoma.

Design: Retrospective noncomparative interventional case series.

Participants: One hundred twenty-six patients (204 eyes) who had childhood glaucoma observed over 30 years, with a mean follow-up of 11.

Acquired retraction of the eye as the first sign of myositis.

The authors report a patient who was diagnosed with idiopathic orbital myositis based on the findings of diplopia, worse on right gaze, globe retraction on adduction and injection at the lateral muscle tendon insertion of the left eye. Although orbital myositis as a cause of acquired retraction of the eye is rare, they wish to emphasize the importance of globe retraction with injection over the recti as an important clue for the diagnosis of orbital myositis.

Bilateral Duane retraction syndrome associated with an extraordinary hand anomaly.

Duane retraction syndrome is an ocular motility disorder with which an increasing number of congenital abnormalities appear to be associated. In the present paper the authors report a case of bilateral Duane retraction syndrome with an extraordinary hand abnormality. Numerous theories concerning the etiology and pathogenesis of Duane retraction syndrome and its relationship to the associated findings have been proposed, but the exact mechanism is still under investigation.

Tolerated cilium in the anterior chamber.

Purpose: To describe a patient with a tolerated cilium in the anterior chamber.

Methods: A 15-year-old girl, referred with a 5-year trauma history, was examined. A cilium was noted in the anterior chamber without any inflammation during routine ophthalmological examination.

Ophthalmologic abnormalities in children from a Turkish school for the deaf.

The aim of this study was to determine the nature and prevalence of ophthalmologic abnormalities in deaf children. Complete ophthalmologic examinations were performed on 104 children aged 7 to 20 years from a Turkish school for the deaf. Of 104 children, 42 children (40.