Acuity, stereopsis, and contrast sensitivity each contributed to quality of life, across a range of measures, in elderly women with cataract. Acuity was marginally the most consistently and generally the most strongly associated, but in some analyses stereopsis was more important. Change in quality of life was associated with change in stereopsis and contrast sensitivity.

In our study, pre-operative thrombocytosis is not a prognostic indicator of survival in colorectal cancer patients regardless of pathological stage.

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An 80-year-old male patient presented with abdominal pain, paroxysmal diaphoresis, diarrhoea and vomiting. CT scan revealed a small bowel endocrine carcinoma (or 'carcinoid' tumour), but the absence of hepatic disease. The lesion was excised 'en-bloc'. Intra-operatively, there was wide fluctuation in blood pressure associated with tumour manipulation, with hyper- and hypotension. Carcinoid syndrome usually occurs from gastrointestinal tumours when hepatic metastases occur, causing flushing, diarrhoea, bronchoconstriction and murmurs from cardiac valvular lesions. This patient did not have radiological evidence of hepatic metastasis, but the syndrome could still occur with midgut tumours via local invasion of the retroperitoneal circulation, or by action of substances other than serotonin that do not undergo hepatic metabolism.