"Charitable Action on Phthisical Cases gives some very practical, though scarcely novel, suggestions that are still in need of enforcement, notably as to the remark- able results obtained by open ...

A study of 419 phthisical patients referred during a period of six years, from January 1, 1906, to January 1, 1912, to the Social Service Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital ...

Aim: To evaluate factors influencing change in visual acuity (VA) after intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide as treatment of exudative age related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods: ...

Before vitrectomy was available, most of the eyes with perforating trauma became phthisical or required enucleation.

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The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul and often the first features on the face people notice. So when an eye is lost or deformed, the defect becomes very conspicuous to the beholder.

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We describe a rare occurrence of peripunctal nevus and uveal melanoma with scleral pigment dispersion in a phthisical eye. Patient consent has been obtained for publishing identifiable photographs. A ...

Figure 2. Phthisical eye (a). Left eye with miotic pupil and shallow anterior chamber with inflammation (b). Investigations such as OCT and fundus fluorescein angiography were not possible due to ...