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Original Articles

Clinical science

• Prevalence of blindness and cataract surgery in Nepal (1 June, 1998)

  G P Pokharel, G Regmi, S K Shrestha, A D Negrel, L B Ellwein
• Visual functioning and quality of life outcomes among cataract operated and unoperated blind populations in Nepal (1 June, 1998)

  G P Pokharel, S Selvaraj, Leon B Ellwein
• Do patients with age related maculopathy and cataract benefit from cataract surgery? (1 June, 1998)

  G N Shuttleworth, E A Luhishi, R A Harrad
• An instrument for assessment of subjective visual disability in cataract patients (1 June, 1998)

  Konrad Pesudovs, Douglas J Coster
• Ultrasound biomicroscopic imaging in intermediate uveitis (1 June, 1998)

  Georg Häring, Bernhard Nölle, Burkhard Wiechens
• Causes of blindness in the adult population of the Republic of Ireland (1 June, 1998)

  Alain Munier, Tim Gunning, Desmond Kenny, Michael O’Keefe
• Tono-Pen determination of intraocular pressure in patients with band keratopathy or glued cornea (1 June, 1998)

  Augusto Azuara-Blanco, Tahera K Bhojani, Abdul R Sarhan, C T Pillai, Harminder S Dua
• Clinical evaluation of keratometry and computerised videokeratography: intraobserver and interobserver variability on normal and astigmatic corneas (1 June, 1998)

  Constantinos H Karabatsas, Stuart D Cook, John Papaefthymiou, Phil Turner, John M Sparrow
• Measurement of optic disc size: equivalence of methods to correct for ocular magnification (1 June, 1998)

  D F Garway-Heath, A R Rudnicka, T Lowe, P J Foster, F W Fitzke, R A Hitchings
• Electrophysiological evaluation of visual loss in Müller cell sheen dystrophy (1 June, 1998)

  Ulrich Kellner, Hannelore Kraus, Heinrich Heimann, Horst Helbig, Norbert Bornfeld, Michael H Foerster
• Accuracy of visible retinal emboli for the detection of cardioembolic lesions requiring anticoagulation or cardiac surgery (1 June, 1998)

  Sanjay Sharma, Gary C Brown, Alan F Cruess
• Can convulsions alone cause retinal haemorrhages in infants? (1 June, 1998)

  Ajai K Tyagi, Steve Scotcher, Nikos Kozeis, Harry E Willshaw
• Meta-analysis on the recurrence rates after bare sclera resection with and without mitomycin C use and conjunctival autograft placement in surgery for primary pterygium (1 June, 1998)

  Juan Camilo Sánchez-Thorin, Guillermo Rocha, Julie B Yelin
• Frequent association of delayed tear clearance in ocular irritation (1 June, 1998)

  Pinnita Prabhasawat, Scheffer C G Tseng
• Phenotypic heterogeneity may occur in congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles (1 June, 1998)

  A C Reck, R Manners, E Hatchwell

Laboratory science

• Axon deviation in the human lamina cribrosa (1 June, 1998)

  James E Morgan, Glen Jeffery, Alexander J E Foss
• Retinal nerve fibre layer polarimetry: histological and clinical comparison (1 June, 1998)

  J E Morgan, A Waldock, G Jeffery, A Cowey
• Mast cells in pathological and surgical scars (1 June, 1998)

  T W Beer, H Baldwin, L West, P J Gallagher, D H Wright
• Interferon gamma immunoreactivity in iris nerve fibres during endotoxin induced uveitis in the rat (1 June, 1998)

  Peizeng Yang, Alex F de Vos, Aize Kijlstra
• Effect of mycophenolate mofetil, cyclosporin A, and both in combination in a murine corneal graft rejection model (1 June, 1998)

  Alexander Reis, Thomas Reinhard, Rainer Sundmacher, Christian Braunstein, Erhard Godehardt