Table of contents

Original Articles

Clinical science

• Profile of patients presenting for cataract surgery in the UK: national data collection (1 August, 1999)

  Parul Desai, Angela Reidy, Darwin C Minassian
• Audit of extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber lens implantation as a routine treatment for age related cataract in east Africa (1 August, 1999)

  David Yorston, Allen Foster
• Automated localisation of the optic disc, fovea, and retinal blood vessels from digital colour fundus images (1 August, 1999)

  Chanjira Sinthanayothin, James F Boyce, Helen L Cook, Thomas H Williamson
• Effect of software manipulation (Photoshop) of digitised retinal images on the grading of diabetic retinopathy (1 August, 1999)

  L D George, J Lusty, D R Owens, R L Ollerton
• Phenotypic variations in a family with retinal dystrophy as result of different mutations in the ABCRgene

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  B Jeroen Klevering, Marc van Driel, Dorien J R van de Pol, Alfred J L G Pinckers, Frans P M Cremers, Carel B Hoyng
• Phenotype of autosomal recessive congenital microphthalmia mapping to chromosome 14q32 (1 August, 1999)

  David A R Bessant, Khalid Anwar, Shagufta Khaliq, Abdul Hameed, M Ismail, Annette M Payne, S Qasim Mehdi, Shomi S Bhattacharya
• Long term results of radiotherapy for subfoveal choroidal neovascularisation in age related macular degeneration (1 August, 1999)

  Martine Mauget-Faÿsse, Christophe Chiquet, Dan Milea, Pascale Romestaing, Jean-Pierre Gérard, Philippe Martin, Françoise Koenig
• Causes of childhood blindness in the People’s Republic of China: results from 1131 blind school students in 18 provinces (1 August, 1999)

  S J Hornby, Y Xiao, C E Gilbert, A Foster, X Wang, X Liang, H Jing, L Wang, W Min, Y Shi, Y Li
• Eye injuries in children: the current picture (1 August, 1999)

  Caroline J MacEwen, Paul S Baines, Parul Desai
• Population based assessment of diabetic retinopathy in an urban population in southern India (1 August, 1999)

  Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Thomas J Naduvilath, Catherine A McCarty, Gullapalli N Rao
• Incidence of corneal melting in association with systemic disease in the Yorkshire Region, 1995–7 (1 August, 1999)

  M McKibbin, J D Isaacs, A J Morrell
• Prophylactic scleral buckle for prevention of retinal detachment following vitrectomy for macular hole (1 August, 1999)

  Tom S Chang, Ed McGill, Dawn A Hay, William H Ross, Alan L Maberley, Lyn M Sibley, Patrick E Ma, Michael J Potter
• Endoscopy of the lacrimal system (1 August, 1999)

  Klaus Müllner, Elisabeth Bodner, Geva E Mannor

Laboratory science

• Vitreous levels of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) as a risk indicator of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (1 August, 1999)

  G Astrid Limb, Anthony H Chignell
• Detection of herpes simplex virus DNA in atypical epithelial keratitis using polymerase chain reaction (1 August, 1999)

  Noriko Koizumi, Kohji Nishida, Wakako Adachi, Mamoru Tei, Yoichi Honma, Atsuyoshi Dota, Chie Sotozono, Norihiko Yokoi, Shuji Yamamoto, Shigeru Kinoshita
• Effect of the cytostatic agent idarubicin on fibroblasts of the human Tenon’s capsule compared with mitomycin C (1 August, 1999)

  Claudia Heilmann, Peter Schönfeld, Thomas Schlüter, Ralf Bohnensack, Wolfgang Behrens-Baumann
• New animal model for human ocular toxocariasis: ophthalmoscopic observation (1 August, 1999)

  Tomoko Hara Takayanagi, Nobuaki Akao, Ryoko Suzuki, Misato Tomoda, Setsuko Tsukidate, Koichiro Fujita
• Suppression of induction of experimental immune mediated blepharoconjunctivitis by tolerogenic conjugates of the antigen and monomethoxypolyethylene glycol (1 August, 1999)

  Atsuki Fukushima, Koji Nishino, Hironori Yoshida, Masaru Takata, Hisayuki Ueno