Table of contents

Original articles

Clinical science

• Clinical science: Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness and diabetic retinopathy in Taif, Saudi Arabia (11 July, 2012)

  Abdul Hamid Al Ghamdi, Mansur Rabiu, Saad Hajar, David Yorston, Hannah Kuper, Sarah Polack
• Clinical science: Short term LASIK outcomes using the Technolas 217C excimer laser and Hansatome microkeratome in 46 708 eyes treated between 1998 and 2001 (8 May, 2012)

  Dan Z Reinstein, William B Threlfall, Randall Cook, Emma Cremonesi, Hugo FS Sutton, Timothy J Archer, Marine Gobbe
• Clinical science: Clinical characteristics of newly diagnosed primary, pigmentary and pseudoexfoliative open-angle glaucoma in the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study (6 July, 2012)

  David C Musch, Takayuki Shimizu, Leslie M Niziol, Brenda W Gillespie, L Frank Cashwell, Paul R Lichter
• Clinical science: Practical landmarks for visual field disability in glaucoma (14 July, 2012)

  Luke J Saunders, Richard A Russell, David P Crabb
• Clinical science: Central corneal thickness and intraocular pressure in children undergoing congenital cataract surgery: a prospective, longitudinal study (19 July, 2012) Free

  Graziela Massa Resende, Álvaro P C Lupinacci, Carlos Eduardo Leite Arieta, Vital P Costa
• Clinical science: Penetrating keratoplasty using femtosecond laser-enabled keratoplasty with zig-zag incisions versus a mechanical trephine in patients with keratoconus (11 July, 2012)

  Ronald N Gaster, Oanna Dumitrascu, Yaron S Rabinowitz
• Clinical science: Long term visual outcomes, graft survival and complications of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty in patients with herpes simplex related corneal scarring (23 July, 2012)

  Douglas A M Lyall, Sonali Tarafdar, Michael James Gilhooly, Fiona Roberts, Kanna Ramaesh
• Clinical science: Grading nuclear, cortical and posterior subcapsular cataracts using an objective scatter index measured with a double-pass system (11 July, 2012)

  Meritxell Vilaseca, Maria José Romero, Montserrat Arjona, Sergio Oscar Luque, Juan Carlos Ondategui, Antoni Salvador, José L Güell, Pablo Artal, Jaume Pujol
• Clinical science: Fundus autofluorescence and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography findings suggesting tissue remodelling in retinal pigment epithelium tear (23 July, 2012)

  Albert Caramoy, Sascha Fauser, Bernd Kirchhof
• Clinical science: Development of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy in unaffected fellow eyes (3 July, 2012)

  Yun Taek Kim, Se Woong Kang, Song Ee Chung, Min Gui Kong, Jae Hui Kim
• Clinical science: Clinical features of reticular pseudodrusen according to the fundus distribution (6 July, 2012)

  Mee Yon Lee, Jaemoon Yoon, Don-Il Ham
• Clinical science: Eye features in three Danish patients with multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (11 July, 2012)

  Hans Ulrik Moller, Hans C Fledelius, Dianna M Milewicz, Ellen S Regalado, John R Ostergaard
• Clinical science: Early signs of longitudinal progressive cone photoreceptor degeneration in achromatopsia (11 July, 2012)

  Mervyn George Thomas, Rebecca Jane McLean, Susanne Kohl, Viral Sheth, Irene Gottlob
• Clinical science: The validity of routine brain MRI in detecting post-laminar optic nerve involvement in retinoblastoma (11 July, 2012)

  Byung Joo Lee, Jeong Hun Kim, Dong Hun Kim, Sung-Hye Park, Young Suk Yu

Laboratory science

• Laboratory science: Orbital and lacrimal gland progressive transformation of germinal centres—an underdiagnosed entity? (11 July, 2012)

  Sepideh Amin, Alan Ramsay
• Laboratory science: The expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in mast cells promotes the neovascularisation of human pterygia (11 July, 2012)

  Kun Liang, Zhengxuan Jiang, Bingying Zhao, Jijia Shen, Dake Huang, Liming Tao
• Laboratory science: In vitro effect of a corrosive hostile ocular surface on candidate biomaterials for keratoprosthesis skirt (16 July, 2012)

  Xiao Wei Tan, Andri Riau, Zhi Long Shi, Anna C S Tan, Koon Gee Neoh, Khiam Aik Khor, Roger W Beuerman, Donald Tan, Jodhbir S Mehta
• Laboratory science: Kinetic analysis of cytokines, chemokines, chemokine receptors and adhesion molecules in murine ocular toxoplasmosis (11 July, 2012)

  Akitoshi Kikumura, Takashi Ishikawa, Kazumi Norose