Gianna Scuderi

• Francis Marion University

Until the beginning of the 1970’s, the types of treatment commonly used in soft cataract surgery were: optical iridectomy discission linear extracapsular extraction (various techniques) intracapsular extraction (particular cases).

Keratoendotheliitis, or deep viral keratitis, is characterized clinically, and the various physical, medical, and surgical modes of treatment are examined.

General criteria for the choice of the most appropriate time for surgical operation of congenital cataract are based on the following clinical factors: the type of cataract (partial or total, unilateral or bilateral) and its possible assocation with other ocular alternations (strabismus, etc.). From an examination of table I, it can be deduced that...

A typical affection of the pigment epithelium was described for the first time by Scuderi and colleagues in 1948, characterized by visual loss and the ophthalmoscopic finding of exudative, yellowish white spots at the posterior pole, a favorable course and a quick healing, defined as "benign external exudative retinitis." We illustrate another 13 c...

The authors' finding in cases of unilateral retinal dysplasia associated with various features of primary hyperplastic vitreous (PHV), and without systemic changes and familial history, induces one to revise the classical concept of Reese's (1955) retinal dysplasia. According to the findings, it is possible to define retinal dysplasia as any abnorm...

The authors, after a brief examination of numerous and various problems concerning the classification, the etiopathogenesis and the nosology of deep keratitis, present a critical examination of the different and sometimes contrasting therapeutic procedures. Based on personal experience acquired by treating several hundreds of cases during the last...

The authors have studied the concentrations of lactate in the lenses of rabbits aged 15 days, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and 4 years. The concentration in 15-day-old rabbits is high, while it progressively decreases in rabbits of 6 months, 1, 2, and 3 years. In 4-year-old rabbits the concentration rises and reaches more or less the same lev...