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Original Articles

Clinical science

• New treatment of dry eye: the effect of calcium ointment through eyelid skin delivery (1 July, 1999)

  Kazuo Tsubota, Yu Monden, Yukiko Yagi, Eiki Goto, Shigeto Shimmura
• Identification and antibiotic susceptibility of coagulase negative staphylococci isolated in corneal/external infections (1 July, 1999)

  Antonio Pinna, Stefania Zanetti, Mario Sotgiu, Leonardo A Sechi, Giovanni Fadda, Francesco Carta
• Evaluation of corneal thickness and topography in normal eyes using the Orbscan corneal topography system (1 July, 1999)

  Zuguo Liu, Andrew J Huang, Stephen C Pflugfelder
• Topographic and keratometric astigmatism up to 1 year following small flap trabeculectomy (microtrabeculectomy) (1 July, 1999)

  S A Vernon, H J Zambarakji, F Potgieter, J Evans, P B Chell
• Early retreatment of infantile esotropia: comparison of reoperation and botulinum toxin (1 July, 1999)

  Jaime Tejedor, José M Rodríguez
• Combined effect of Interceed and 5-fluorouracil on delayed adjustable strabismus surgery (1 July, 1999)

  Jeong-Min Hwang, Bong Leen Chang
• Creation and testing of a practical visual function assessment for use in Africa: correlation with visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and near vision in Malawian adults (1 July, 1999)

  Karin van Dijk, Susan Lewallen, Moses Chirambo, Jane Gardiner, Brian Hoar, Janette Lindley, N Kevin Wade, Paul Courtright
• Visual performance in giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis) after 1 year of therapy (1 July, 1999)

  Mark J Kupersmith, Regina Langer, Hal Mitnick, Robert Spiera, Harry Spiera, Marjorie Richmond, Stephen Paget
• Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in autosomal dominant cataract (1 July, 1999)

  Alexander Ionides, Peter Francis, Vanita Berry, Donna Mackay, Shomi Bhattacharya, Alan Shiels, Anthony Moore
• Glaucoma patients demonstrate faulty autoregulation of ocular blood flow during posture change (1 July, 1999)

  David W Evans, Alon Harris, Melanie Garrett, Hak Sung Chung, Larry Kagemann
• Risk factors for failures of trabeculectomies performed without antimetabolites (1 July, 1999)

  Holger Mietz, Birgit Raschka, Günter K Krieglstein
• Subtraction ICG angiography in Harada’s disease (1 July, 1999)

  Takeya Kohno, Tokuhiko Miki, Kunihiko Shiraki, Kiyoshi Kano, Michiko Matsushita, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Jean Jacques De Laey

Laboratory science

• Comparison of the levels of hepatocyte growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor in aqueous fluid and serum with grades of retinopathy in patients with diabetes mellitus (1 July, 1999)

  Kei Shinoda, Susumu Ishida, Shinichi Kawashima, Toshiko Wakabayashi, Tadayuki Matsuzaki, Michiyo Takayama, Ken Shinmura, Masakazu Yamada
• Angiogenic factors in human proliferative sickle cell retinopathy (1 July, 1999)

  Jingtai Cao, Michaela Kunz Mathews, D Scott McLeod, Carol Merges, Leonard M Hjelmeland, Gerard A Lutty
• Soluble ICAM-1 serum levels in patients with intermediate uveitis (1 July, 1999)

  Anne-Marie Klok, Leny Luyendijk, Michel J W Zaal, Aniki Rothova, Aize Kijlstra
• Dynamics of phosphorothioate oligonucleotides in normal and laser photocoagulated retina (1 July, 1999)

  Wei-Yong Shen, Kerryn L Garrett, Lyndon da Cruz, Ian J Constable, Piroska E Rakoczy
• Morphological variations of the peripapillary circle of Zinn–Haller by flat section (1 July, 1999)

  Myung-Kyoo Ko, Dong-Seob Kim, Yoon-Koo Ahn