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Original articles

Clinical science

• Original article: Small incision corneal refractive surgery using the small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) procedure for the correction of myopia and myopic astigmatism: results of a 6 month prospective study (3 July, 2010)

  Walter Sekundo, Kathleen S Kunert, Marcus Blum
• Original article: Imaging of blebs after phacotrabeculectomy with Ologen collagen matrix implants (7 August, 2010)

  P-Y Boey, A Narayanaswamy, C Zheng, S A Perera, H M Htoon, T A Tun, S K Seah, T T Wong, T Aung
• Original article: Diagnosis of bacterial endophthalmitis by broad-range quantitative PCR (31 July, 2010)

  Sunao Sugita, Norio Shimizu, Ken Watanabe, Miki Katayama, Shintaro Horie, Manabu Ogawa, Hiroshi Takase, Yoshiharu Sugamoto, Manabu Mochizuki
• Original article: The differential diagnosis of localised amelanotic limbal lesions: a review of 162 consecutive excisions (13 September, 2010)

  Adam K Rudkin, Tom Dodd, James S Muecke
• Original article: Topical 1% 5-fluorouracil in ocular surface squamous neoplasia: a long-term safety study (7 August, 2010)

  Raffaele Parrozzani, Daniela Lazzarini, Ernesto Alemany-Rubio, Francesca Urban, Edoardo Midena
• Original article: Risk factors for idiopathic orbital inflammation: a case–control study (31 July, 2010)

  Ward R Bijlsma, Carla H van Gils, Dion Paridaens, Maarten P Mourits, Rachel Kalmann
• Original article: Temporal trends in retinal detachment incidence in Scotland between 1987 and 2006 (7 July, 2010)

  Danny Mitry, James Chalmers, Kirsty Anderson, Linda Williams, Brian W Fleck, Alan Wright, Harry Campbell
• Original article: Human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) transplantation: outcome after autologous RPE-choroid sheet and RPE cell-suspension in a randomised clinical study (7 July, 2010) Free

  Christiane I Falkner-Radler, Ilse Krebs, Carl Glittenberg, Boris Považay, Wolfgang Drexler, Alexandra Graf, Susanne Binder
• Original article: Vitreoschisis in macular diseases (28 June, 2010)

  Priya Gupta, Kenneth M P Yee, Patricia Garcia, Richard B Rosen, Jignesh Parikh, Gregory S Hageman, Alfredo A Sadun, J Sebag
• Original article: Evaluation of optical coherence tomography findings in age-related macular degeneration: a reproducibility study of two independent reading centres (30 August, 2010)

  Markus Ritter, Julee Elledge, Christian Simader, Gabor G Deak, Thomas Benesch, Barbara A Blodi, Ursula M Schmidt-Erfurth
• Original article: Comparison of two intravitreal ranibizumab treatment schedules for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (6 August, 2010)

  Bhaskar Gupta, Temilade Adewoyin, Sheryl-Kay Patel, Sobha Sivaprasad
• Original article: Intravitreal bevacizumab for retinal vein occlusion and early growth of epiretinal membrane: a possible secondary effect? (7 August, 2010)

  Joaquin Marticorena, Mario R Romano, Heinrich Heimann, Theodore Stappler, Kurshid Gibran, Carl Groenewald, Ian Pearce, David Wong
• Original article:

  Toxoplasma gondii in the peripheral blood of patients with acute and chronic toxoplasmosis

  (3 July, 2010)

  Cláudio Silveira, Adriana Lima Vallochi, Ulisses Rodrigues da Silva, Cristina Muccioli, Gary N Holland, Robert B Nussenblatt, Rubens Belfort, Luiz Vicente Rizzo
• Original article: The effect of low-density lipoprotein apheresis on ocular microcirculation in patients with hypercholesterolaemia: a pilot study (8 June, 2010)

  Naim Terai, Ulrich Julius, Michael Haustein, Eberhard Spoerl, Lutz E Pillunat

Laboratory science

• Original article: Novel materials to enhance corneal epithelial cell migration on keratoprosthesis (31 July, 2010)

  Akbar Karkhaneh, Hamid Mirzadeh, Alireza Ghaffariyeh, Abdolali Ebrahimi, Nazafarin Honarpisheh, Masud Hosseinzadeh, Mohammad Hossein Heidari
• Original article: Histological evaluation and biomechanical characterisation of an acellular porcine cornea scaffold (17 October, 2010)

  Liqun Du, Xinyi Wu, Kunpeng Pang, Yongmei Yang
• Original article: Evaluation of tear samples for Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV) detection in suspected cases of viral keratitis using PCR assay and conventional laboratory diagnostic tools (18 September, 2010)

  Gita Satpathy, Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Radhika Tandon, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Anjana Sharma, Niranjan Nayak, Jeewan Singh Titiyal, Namrata Sharma
• Original article: Ocular surface molecule after transconjunctival vitrectomy (8 October, 2010)

  Atsuko Fujita, Eisuke Uchino, Hiroki Otsuka, Noboru Arimura, Yoshihiro Noda, Tatsuro Ishibashi, Taiji Sakamoto
• Original article: Chromosomal aberrations in iris melanomas (29 September, 2010)

  H W Mensink, J Vaarwater, R J W de Keizer, D de Wolff-Rouendaal, C M Mooy, A de Klein, D Paridaens