In this month's session we welcomed back Simon and Alejandro from the Royal Veterinary College as well as Institute of Ophthalmology researchers Alison, Beatriz and Karla. We started with a case of Reis-Bücklers corneal dystrophy, which led to a chat about granular dystrophy variants and other TGFBI-associated dystrophies. Other cases included eye trauma and intraocular… Continue reading Microscopy October 2017
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Microscopy September 2017
A quiet session this month, which gave us a chance to start by reviewing some technical aspects of macroscopy (grossing) and compare macroscopic impressions with the corresponding slides before moving on to discussion of recent interesting cases. Case 1 Globe with choroidal tumour. The actual diagnosis isn't a challenge here, but there are a couple… Continue reading Microscopy September 2017
Teaching August 2017
Rather than run a live microscopy session this month, I instead ran a half day teaching session last week for the new (and not so new!) ophthalmology trainees at Moorfields. This took the form of a quiz, looking at differential diagnoses of exam-type cases, using audience response system handsets from Qwizdom. I'd never used this… Continue reading Teaching August 2017
Microscopy May 2017
In addition to our regular multiheader session this week, I was teaching at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead last week, on eyelid, orbital, conjunctival and corneal pathology. We reviewed some of the East Grinstead cases during the multiheader session, which was attended by our regulars Simon and Alejandro from the Royal Veterinary College as well… Continue reading Microscopy May 2017