A Review of Literature on Health-Related Quality of Life of Retinoblastoma Survivors. [PDF]
Background: Retinoblastoma is a malignant tumor of the eye that typically presents in early childhood and occurs in approximately 1 in 20,000 births. While active treatment of the tumor is typically completed in childhood, survivors often suffer from ...
Belson, Paula J+4 more
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Neurologic Deficits Including Auditory Loss and Recovery of Function in Horses with Temporohyoid Osteoarthropathy. [PDF]
BackgroundAuditory loss is a common deficit in horses with temporohyoid osteoarthropathy (THO), however, recovery of function is unknown.Hypothesis/objectivesTo investigate neurologic function with emphasis in audition in horses with THO after treatment.
Aleman, M+3 more
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Angela C Gauthier, Oluseye K Oduyale, Michael J Fliotsos, Sidra Zafar, Nicholas R Mahoney, Divya Srikumaran, Fasika A Woreta Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USACorrespondence: Fasika A WoretaWilmer Eye Institute ...
Gauthier AC+6 more
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Retinoblastoma: Identifying the Diagnostic Signs for Early Treatment [PDF]
Retinoblastoma is a rare but significant cause of childhood eye cancer world-wide. The prognosis depends upon early diagnosis and treatment but also upon accurate classification of the tumours.
Barratt, K.+4 more
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ニサンカ タンソ コテイ ノ タメ ノ ヒカリ ユウキ ハンノウ システム ニ カンスル ケンキュウ [PDF]
Planarians can propagate asexually by fission and successive regeneration. During head regeneration, they again form a new pair of eyes, and sometimes supernumerary eyes. The positions of normal and supernumerary eyes and their regeneration abilities are
Fumie Sakai+3 more
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Massive Retinal Gliosis Mistaken as a Malignant Intraocular Tumor in Phthisis Bulbi
Massive retinal gliosis (MRG) is a rare condition of non-neoplastic glial proliferation, which forms massive lesions that fill the eye. MRG is commonly associated with phthisis bulbi (a non-functional eye), congenital anomalies, or malformations. Herein,
Soyoung Im+3 more
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Staged Eye-Plaque Brachytherapy: A Novel Approach for Large Uveal Melanoma
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report our experience regarding the development of a staged eye-plaque brachytherapy approach for large uveal melanoma lesions which would otherwise require enucleation due to toxicity from a single-session ...
Neil Chevli, MD+5 more
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Transplantable melanomas in hamsters and gerbils as models for human melanoma : sensitization in melanoma radiotherapy : from animal models to clinical trials [PDF]
The focus of the present review is to investigate the role of melanin in the radioprotection of melanoma and attempts to sensitize tumors to radiation by inhibiting melanogenesis. Early studies showed radical scavenging, oxygen consumption and adsorption
Andrzej Słominski+11 more
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Risk Factors for Enucleation Following Open Globe Injury: A 17-Year Experience
Avi Toiv, Asad F Durrani, Yunshu Zhou, Peter Y Zhao, David C Musch, Michael J Huvard, David N Zacks Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, W K Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USACorrespondence: David N ...
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Evidence of multisensory plasticity: Asymmetrical medial geniculate body in people with one eye
The medial geniculate body (MGB) plays a central role in auditory processing with both efferent and afferent tracts to primary auditory cortex. People who have lost one eye early in life have enhanced sound localization, lack visual over auditory ...
Stefania S. Moro+4 more
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