The objective of the authors is to report the case of a tarsal fibroma, a tumoration on the superotemporal side of the right orbit with slow growth over the years. Analysis of the anatomical specimen obtained from the tarsal region showed a well-defined lesion, consisting of deposition of dense collagen fibers, with fusiform cells without atypia, with coating conjunctival cells, featuring fibroma of the tarsal plate.

The authors make an update of pachychoroid in a group of the choroidal-retinal diseases that choroidal thickening is an usualenhanced depth image – optic coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) finding like as central serous chorioretinopathy, pachychoroid neovasculopathy, polipoidal choroidal vasculopathy and pachychoroid pigment epitheliopathy.

Os autores fazem uma atualização da presença do espessamento de coroide, um achado de tomografia de coerência óptica com imagem de profundidade melhorada (EDI-OCT) empatologias retino-coroidianas como coroido-retinopatia central serosa, espessamento de coroide com neovascularização, vasculopatiacoroidianapolipoidal e espessamento de coróide com epiteliopatia.

Decision-making in health is a daily challenge in the life of the ophthalmologist. Patients, operators and public and private managers are increasingly requiringdemanding conducts based on the best scientific evidence available, seeking the assurance of safe and effective procedures. Such responses arise continuously in the literature, and keeping up to date in all areas of ophthalmic knowledge is an arduous task, which requires a time not always available to doctors, whose agendasare increasingly filled with too many activities […].

Objetivo: Avaliar o perfil epidemiológico e severidade da degeneração macular relacionada à idade (DMRI) no ambulatório de oftalmologia da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) em Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Métodos: Estudo transversal com dados coletados referentes as 6155 consultas oftalmológicas realizadas no período de novembro de 2011 a novembro de 2013. Destes, 346 pacientes possuíam doenças retinianas e foram avaliados por dois especialistas em retina à procura de sinais de DMRI. Os confirmados foram submetidos a um protocolo compreendendo acuidade visual, […]

Objective: To evaluate the profile and severity of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in ophthalmology ambulatory of Federal University of Parana in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with data collected among the 6155 outpatients ophthalmic appointments (november 2011 to november 2013). In this 6155 patients, a total of 346 patients had retinal diseases and were screened by two retinal specialists for signs of AMD. If present, they were submitted to a protocol including a new ophthalmic evaluation […]

Objective: To evaluate the increased prevalence of myopia among patients in different periods in an ophthalmologic hospital in Goiânia. Methods: There were compared data collected in two scientific studies carried out in the same ophthalmologic hospital in different periods of time, they evaluated among other factors, the refractive errors of the participants, from this data there were compared the percentage of patients with myopia between the two studies. Results: There was an increase in the prevalence of myopia among the […]

Objective: The purpose of this study was to promote the teaching of trachoma and to act in the combat of this leading cause of preventable blindness. Methods: This proposal was approved by the Ministry of Health (PET Program – Health/Health Surveillance), predicting the service training of medicine and nursing graduate students and health workers, in Botucatu, Sao Paulo – Brazil, in 2010. The training covered theory and practice, which consisted of cross-sectional study, with a randomized sampling to study the […]