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Association of Ophthalmic Alumni of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: 11th Biennial Meeting
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mologic and visual science literature. It deals with various aspects of basic visual physiology. It deals, in general, with the problems of phototransduction in the visual receptor, the absorption properties of the visual pigments, the spatial resolution of bleaching and background adaptation in rods, and the retinal neuronal connections and response in primates, turtles, and other species. It deals as well with issues of neurotransmitters in the retina and visual responses in the visual cortex. Finally, there is some discussion of information-processing in the retina and mechanisms associated with visual acuity. The writers, primarily MacNichol's students and friends, are all leaders in their fields. The text itself is probably of more interest to the physiologist than to the practicing ophthalmologist. It is an excellent current summary of the status of research in retinal physiology. I recommend this volume highly to the interested reader.
Microsurgery Update 1982-1984. (Developments in Ophthalmology, vol. 11). Edited by F. Bigar. Basel, S. Karger AG, 1985. 206 pages, index, illustrated. $54.25
Reviewed by MARK J. MANNIS Sacramento, California In this slim volume the editor has gathered a series of papers representing the proceedings of the 1984 meeting of the International Ophthalmic Microsurgery Study Group. The book's major headings include technical problems in ophthalmic microsurgery, corneal donor material and preservation, corneal surgery, glaucoma surgery, cataract surgery, and vitreoretinal surgery. Under each of these headings is a group of papers presented by prominent surgeons and scholars from Europe and the United States. The book contains a total of 38 papers. As in most books recording the proceedings of scientific meetings, there is considerable heterogeneity in the material included. For the most part, the papers are not systematic reviews of the subject but rather present data in relation to other published work on the subject. This requires the reader to be somewhat familiar with the field to derive maximum benefit from the paper. Most of the papers deal with
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surgical methodology or instrumentation in special surgical circumstances. The book is well organized and nicely illustrated with photographs, tables, and graphs. The editor points out in the preface that one of the great benefits of the meeting recorded in this book was the thorough question-anddiscussion period. Unfortunately, that portion of the meeting is not included with the papers, leaving the reader without what was assuredly the most instructive portion of the proceedings. Nonetheless, this volume will be of interest to anterior segment surgeons, particularly those specializing in corneal and glaucoma surgery.
Meetings
Association of Ophthalmic Alumni of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: 11th Biennial Meeting
The 11th biennial meeting of the Association of Ophthalmic Alumni of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology was held June 21 and 22, 1985, in Bethesda, Maryland. Chairman for the meeting was Francis LaPiana. The topic for the meeting was "Adnexal Lesions," and the program was directed by Frederick [akobiec. The following members presented cases: Charles Barr (Louisville), Conjunctival melanoma in a black patient; Seymour Brownstein (Montreal, Canada), Sebaceous carcinoma of eyelids masquerading as keratoconjunctivitis; Miguel Burnier (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Dracunculiasis of the orbit and eyelids; Douglas Cameron (Minneapolis), Orbital hematic cyst; James Caya (Milwaukee), Alveolar soft part sarcoma of the orbit; David Cogan (Bethesda), Chester-Erdheim syndrome; Oscar Croxatto (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Orbital amyloidosis; Jose Cursino (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Orbital neoplasm with intraocular invasion; Ralph Eagle (Philadelphia), Pilomatrixoma; Victor Elner (Chicago), Sinus histiocytosis of eyelids and orbit; Andrew Ferry (Richmond), Conjunctival hemangioma simulating a melanoma; Ramon Font (Houston), Mucus secreting sweat
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gland carcinoma of eyelid; John Gamel (Louisville), Pleomorphic adenoma of adnexal origin; W. Richard Green (Baltimore), Morphea of eyelids; Ahmed Hidayat (Washington, D.C.), Congenital malignant schwannoma of the orbit; Ian Hood (Gainesville), Malignant melanoma of the orbit in a patient with ocular/orbital melanocytosis; Edward Howes, Jr. (San Francisco), Regressing aytpical histiocytosis from the temporal region; Ann Huntington (Winnipeg, Canada), Squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva; Frederick [akobiec (New York), Orbital malignant fibrous histiocytoma vs liposarcoma; Bruce Johnson (Pittsburgh), Lymphangioma vs varix of the eyelid; Louis Karp (Philadelphia), Epidermoid cyst of the caruncle; Stanley Kim (Washington, D.C.), Poorly differentiated conjunctival adenocarcinoma; Marilyn Kincaid (San Antonio), Unusual presentation of an orbital dermoid; Bon Sool Koo (Seoul, Korea), Venous hemangioma of the orbit; Hans Knobel (Hamburg, West Germany), Eosinophilic granuloma of eyelid and conjunctiva; Joel Kopelman (New York), Intra-orbital cystic mass; George Kurz (Flemington), Kaposi's sarcoma of the conjunctiva in AIDS; Moshe Lahav (Boston), Wegener's granulomatosis of the lacrimal sac; Francis LaPiana (Washington, D.C.), Multicentric nodular and morpheaform basal cell carcinoma; H. K. Leathers (Shawnee Mission), Orbital meningioma; Robert Levine (Chicago), Orbital angiofibroma; Ian McLean (Washington, D.C.), Spitz nevus of the eyelid; Curtis Margo (Tampa), Conjunctival tumor invading orbit and paranasal sinuses; Merlin Marquardt (New York), Oncocytoma of lacrimal gland; Joseph Mauriello (Newark), Basal cell carcinoma with features of trichoepithelioma; Narieman Nik (Silver Spring), Nodular lymphoma of the orbit; Richard O'Grady (Chicago), Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the eyelid; Jacob Pe' er (Jerusalem, Israel), Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the conjunctiva; Henry Perry (New York), Choristomatous pterygia; Patrick Riddle (Nashua), Conjunctival synthetic fiber granuloma; Harold Rodman (Silver Spring), Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva; Merlyn Rodrigues (Bethesda), Orbital schwannoma; Dario Savino (Caracas, Venezuela), Sarcoidosis of eyelid; Amiram Shapiro (Philadelphia), Histopatholo-
October, 1985
gy of fascia lata implant 42 years after ptosis repair; Jerry Shields (Philadelphia), Unusual lymphoplasmacytic lesion of lacrimal gland; Morton Smith (St. Louis), Occult foreign body of the orbit; Richard Smith (Albany), Ocular Munchausen's syndrome -an adnexal inflammatory enigma; Abbot Spaulding (Cincinnati), Adenocarcinoma of the gland of Moll; Walter Stafford (St. Louis), Metastatic carcinoid to the eyelid; Mary Stefanyszyn (Philadelphia), Metastatic carcinoma to the orbit; Elise Torczynski (Chicago), Adnexal tumor of eyelid; Mark Tso (Chicago), Neglected sebaceous cell carcinoma; John Weiner (Melbourne, Australia), Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma with paraproteinemia; Paul Whitmore (Washington, D.C.), Melanoma of the eyelid in a black patient; Henrich Witschel (Berlin, West Germany), Malignant lymphoma of eyelids; Naguib Yassa (Alexandria, Egypt), Basal cell carcinoma of eyelid in Nigerian female. The following alumni were not present but contributed cases: Daniel Albert (Boston), Metastasis from choroidal melanoma presenting with exophthalmos of the opposite eye; Meirnei Chang (Chapel Hill), Sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelid; Gottfried Nauman (Erlanger, West Germany), Malignant melanoma of the orbit arising in congenital oculo-orbito-meningeal melanocytosis; Narsing Rao (Los Angeles), Bilateral squamous cell carcinoma of lid in immunosuppressed patient; William Spencer (San Francisco), Metastatic orbital melanoma associated with mucocutaneous melanosis; John Wright (Atlanta), Neurofibromatosis of eye, orbit, and periorbita. Other members attending the meeting were Joseph Berkow (Baltimore), Bernard Blais (Washington, D.C.), Gerald Christensen (Omaha), Alfred Meisels (Baltimore), Michael Mund (Clifton), and Lorenz E. Zimmerman (Washington, D.C.). Sharon Weiss, of the Department of Soft Tissue Tumor Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, was a guest speaker. Officers selected for 1985-1987 are the following: president, Ian W. McLean; program director, Mark Tso; secretary-treasurer, Harold Rodman. HAROLD I. RODMAN
mologic and visual science literature. It deals with various aspects of basic visual physiology. It deals, in general, with the problems of phototransduction in the visual receptor, the absorption properties of the visual pigments, the spatial resolution of bleaching and background adaptation in rods, and the retinal neuronal connections and response in primates, turtles, and other species. It deals as well with issues of neurotransmitters in the retina and visual responses in the visual cortex. Finally, there is some discussion of information-processing in the retina and mechanisms associated with visual acuity. The writers, primarily MacNichol's students and friends, are all leaders in their fields. The text itself is probably of more interest to the physiologist than to the practicing ophthalmologist. It is an excellent current summary of the status of research in retinal physiology. I recommend this volume highly to the interested reader.
Microsurgery Update 1982-1984. (Developments in Ophthalmology, vol. 11). Edited by F. Bigar. Basel, S. Karger AG, 1985. 206 pages, index, illustrated. $54.25
Reviewed by MARK J. MANNIS Sacramento, California In this slim volume the editor has gathered a series of papers representing the proceedings of the 1984 meeting of the International Ophthalmic Microsurgery Study Group. The book's major headings include technical problems in ophthalmic microsurgery, corneal donor material and preservation, corneal surgery, glaucoma surgery, cataract surgery, and vitreoretinal surgery. Under each of these headings is a group of papers presented by prominent surgeons and scholars from Europe and the United States. The book contains a total of 38 papers. As in most books recording the proceedings of scientific meetings, there is considerable heterogeneity in the material included. For the most part, the papers are not systematic reviews of the subject but rather present data in relation to other published work on the subject. This requires the reader to be somewhat familiar with the field to derive maximum benefit from the paper. Most of the papers deal with
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surgical methodology or instrumentation in special surgical circumstances. The book is well organized and nicely illustrated with photographs, tables, and graphs. The editor points out in the preface that one of the great benefits of the meeting recorded in this book was the thorough question-anddiscussion period. Unfortunately, that portion of the meeting is not included with the papers, leaving the reader without what was assuredly the most instructive portion of the proceedings. Nonetheless, this volume will be of interest to anterior segment surgeons, particularly those specializing in corneal and glaucoma surgery.
Meetings
Association of Ophthalmic Alumni of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: 11th Biennial Meeting
The 11th biennial meeting of the Association of Ophthalmic Alumni of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology was held June 21 and 22, 1985, in Bethesda, Maryland. Chairman for the meeting was Francis LaPiana. The topic for the meeting was "Adnexal Lesions," and the program was directed by Frederick [akobiec. The following members presented cases: Charles Barr (Louisville), Conjunctival melanoma in a black patient; Seymour Brownstein (Montreal, Canada), Sebaceous carcinoma of eyelids masquerading as keratoconjunctivitis; Miguel Burnier (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Dracunculiasis of the orbit and eyelids; Douglas Cameron (Minneapolis), Orbital hematic cyst; James Caya (Milwaukee), Alveolar soft part sarcoma of the orbit; David Cogan (Bethesda), Chester-Erdheim syndrome; Oscar Croxatto (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Orbital amyloidosis; Jose Cursino (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Orbital neoplasm with intraocular invasion; Ralph Eagle (Philadelphia), Pilomatrixoma; Victor Elner (Chicago), Sinus histiocytosis of eyelids and orbit; Andrew Ferry (Richmond), Conjunctival hemangioma simulating a melanoma; Ramon Font (Houston), Mucus secreting sweat
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gland carcinoma of eyelid; John Gamel (Louisville), Pleomorphic adenoma of adnexal origin; W. Richard Green (Baltimore), Morphea of eyelids; Ahmed Hidayat (Washington, D.C.), Congenital malignant schwannoma of the orbit; Ian Hood (Gainesville), Malignant melanoma of the orbit in a patient with ocular/orbital melanocytosis; Edward Howes, Jr. (San Francisco), Regressing aytpical histiocytosis from the temporal region; Ann Huntington (Winnipeg, Canada), Squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva; Frederick [akobiec (New York), Orbital malignant fibrous histiocytoma vs liposarcoma; Bruce Johnson (Pittsburgh), Lymphangioma vs varix of the eyelid; Louis Karp (Philadelphia), Epidermoid cyst of the caruncle; Stanley Kim (Washington, D.C.), Poorly differentiated conjunctival adenocarcinoma; Marilyn Kincaid (San Antonio), Unusual presentation of an orbital dermoid; Bon Sool Koo (Seoul, Korea), Venous hemangioma of the orbit; Hans Knobel (Hamburg, West Germany), Eosinophilic granuloma of eyelid and conjunctiva; Joel Kopelman (New York), Intra-orbital cystic mass; George Kurz (Flemington), Kaposi's sarcoma of the conjunctiva in AIDS; Moshe Lahav (Boston), Wegener's granulomatosis of the lacrimal sac; Francis LaPiana (Washington, D.C.), Multicentric nodular and morpheaform basal cell carcinoma; H. K. Leathers (Shawnee Mission), Orbital meningioma; Robert Levine (Chicago), Orbital angiofibroma; Ian McLean (Washington, D.C.), Spitz nevus of the eyelid; Curtis Margo (Tampa), Conjunctival tumor invading orbit and paranasal sinuses; Merlin Marquardt (New York), Oncocytoma of lacrimal gland; Joseph Mauriello (Newark), Basal cell carcinoma with features of trichoepithelioma; Narieman Nik (Silver Spring), Nodular lymphoma of the orbit; Richard O'Grady (Chicago), Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the eyelid; Jacob Pe' er (Jerusalem, Israel), Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the conjunctiva; Henry Perry (New York), Choristomatous pterygia; Patrick Riddle (Nashua), Conjunctival synthetic fiber granuloma; Harold Rodman (Silver Spring), Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva; Merlyn Rodrigues (Bethesda), Orbital schwannoma; Dario Savino (Caracas, Venezuela), Sarcoidosis of eyelid; Amiram Shapiro (Philadelphia), Histopatholo-
October, 1985
gy of fascia lata implant 42 years after ptosis repair; Jerry Shields (Philadelphia), Unusual lymphoplasmacytic lesion of lacrimal gland; Morton Smith (St. Louis), Occult foreign body of the orbit; Richard Smith (Albany), Ocular Munchausen's syndrome -an adnexal inflammatory enigma; Abbot Spaulding (Cincinnati), Adenocarcinoma of the gland of Moll; Walter Stafford (St. Louis), Metastatic carcinoid to the eyelid; Mary Stefanyszyn (Philadelphia), Metastatic carcinoma to the orbit; Elise Torczynski (Chicago), Adnexal tumor of eyelid; Mark Tso (Chicago), Neglected sebaceous cell carcinoma; John Weiner (Melbourne, Australia), Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma with paraproteinemia; Paul Whitmore (Washington, D.C.), Melanoma of the eyelid in a black patient; Henrich Witschel (Berlin, West Germany), Malignant lymphoma of eyelids; Naguib Yassa (Alexandria, Egypt), Basal cell carcinoma of eyelid in Nigerian female. The following alumni were not present but contributed cases: Daniel Albert (Boston), Metastasis from choroidal melanoma presenting with exophthalmos of the opposite eye; Meirnei Chang (Chapel Hill), Sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelid; Gottfried Nauman (Erlanger, West Germany), Malignant melanoma of the orbit arising in congenital oculo-orbito-meningeal melanocytosis; Narsing Rao (Los Angeles), Bilateral squamous cell carcinoma of lid in immunosuppressed patient; William Spencer (San Francisco), Metastatic orbital melanoma associated with mucocutaneous melanosis; John Wright (Atlanta), Neurofibromatosis of eye, orbit, and periorbita. Other members attending the meeting were Joseph Berkow (Baltimore), Bernard Blais (Washington, D.C.), Gerald Christensen (Omaha), Alfred Meisels (Baltimore), Michael Mund (Clifton), and Lorenz E. Zimmerman (Washington, D.C.). Sharon Weiss, of the Department of Soft Tissue Tumor Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, was a guest speaker. Officers selected for 1985-1987 are the following: president, Ian W. McLean; program director, Mark Tso; secretary-treasurer, Harold Rodman. HAROLD I. RODMAN