4 results match your criteria: "Wilmer Institute and Department of Pathology[Affiliation]"

The macular hole: histopathologic studies.

Arch Ophthalmol

March 2006

The Eye Pathology Laboratory, Wilmer Institute and Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Objective: To delineate the light and electron microscopic features of tissue removed at the time of macular hole surgery.

Methods: The ocular fluid specimens were concentrated using Millipore filters and stained with a modified Papanicolaou and the periodic acid-Schiff stains in 697 cases. In 92 cases, surgically isolated tissue was processed and examined by electron microscopy.

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Histoplasma granuloma of the conjunctiva.

Ophthalmology

October 2003

Eye Pathology Laboratory, Wilmer Institute and Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-9248, USA.

Purpose: To describe the clinical and pathologic features of a conjunctival granuloma resulting from Histoplasma capsulatum.

Design: Clinicopathologic case report.

Methods: Surgical excision of conjunctival lesion, histopathologic study with special stains, and a fluorescent antibody technique.

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Background: Ocular/central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma is a B-lymphocyte-derived tumor that characteristically involves the retina, optic nerve head, vitreous, and subretinal pigment epithelial areas of the eye.

Method: A retrospective analysis of clinical history and photography fluorescein angiography, histopathology, and immunocytochemistry of an untreated patient with ocular/CNS lymphoma was performed.

Results: Tumor detachments of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) evolved into areas of RPE atrophy and depigmentation and disciform scars.

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