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To evaluate the association of baseline characteristics and early visual acuity (VA) response with visual outcomes at years 1 or 2 in the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Treatments Trials (CATT).
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To investigate whether known genetic loci for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) are associated with visual field (VF) progression in patients from a Singaporean Chinese population.
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With apologies from the authors, the publication titled “Twice-Daily Brinzolamide/Brimonidine Fixed Combination versus Brinzolamide or Brimonidine in Open-Angle Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension,” (Ophthalmology 2014;121:2348-55) had an error.
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A 72-year-old man presented with an 8-year history of an enlarging conjunctival mass with several large temporal feeder vessels in the right eye (Fig 1, arrow). Excision was performed and histopathology revealed squamous cell carcinoma (Hematoxylin & Eosin, Figs 2 and 3) with dyskeratosis (star), mitotic figures, apoptotic bodies (arrow), full thickness atypia, pleomorphism, and keratin pearls (asterisk). The patient was started on Interferon alfa 2b therapy to prevent recurrence.
Read more: Squamous Cell Carcinoma Presenting as Conjunctival Lesion
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A 51-year-old man presented with a 10-year history of a gradually enlarging, asymptomatic, left medial canthus mass (Fig 1). Hematoxylin and eosin stain of the excised lesion revealed hyperplastic sebaceous glands forming irregular-shaped lobules with lumina containing proteinaceous material (asterisks) consistent with sebaceous adenoma (Figs 2 and 3). Although this patient was found to be otherwise healthy, a solitary sebaceous adenoma may be associated with malignancies of the gastrointestinal tract or other viscera (Muir-Torre syndrome).
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Dr Odaibo correctly identifies that the relationship between high-dose zinc supplements (as in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study [AREDS] formulation), genotype, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression risk is an important public health issue. He argues that a dense sampling of a population is likely to result in a more accurate representation than a sparse sampling. A more familiar approach to this issue is the concept of statistical significance. How large a sample is needed to reduce the risk of a false representation of the sampled population to an acceptable level? We found the difference in response to zinc-containing treatments in AREDS patients with high-risk CFH/low-risk ARMS2 versus low-risk CFH/high-risk ARMS2 under a Cox model to be significant to P < 0.00099, meaning that the chance that the observed relationship is owing to chance alone is <1 in 1000.