A 75-year-old man presented to us with sudden onset of profound vision loss in his right eye and was identified as suffering from an ophthalmic artery occlusion. Apart from the retinal whitening and box-carring of the retinal arteries, there were characteristic triangular patches of retinal whitening in the midperipheral temporal fundus indicating a previous lateral posterior choroidal artery occlusion. The patient was a chronic smoker and had dyslipidemia. The carotid Doppler study showed complete occlusion of the internal carotid artery. The presence of these triangular patches of retinal whitening or amalric sign can therefore herald a more proximal vessel occlusion. Hence such patients require evaluation on an emergency basis. The characteristic features of the patches on fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography are discussed here.

A field experiment was conducted during the rabi season of 2019-2020 at research farm, J.N.K.V.V., College of Agriculture, Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh) to study the “Effect of different levels of sulphur on growth and yield of onion (Allium cepa L.)”. The treatments consisted of four levels of sulphur, viz.( S0 - 0kg S/ha, S1 - 20 kg S/ha, S2 - 40 kg S/ha and S3 - 60 kg S/ha) were laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications. Result showed significant influence on growth and yield attribute for different sulphur levels. Maximum plant height (62.62 cm), number of leaves per plant (10.25), leaf length (55.45 cm), leaf diameter(0.95 cm), neck thickness (1.88 cm), bulb length (5.73 cm), polar diameter (5.99cm), equatorial diameter (6.11 cm), bulb weight (91.32 g) bulb yield (20.30 kg/plot) and bulb yield (282.00 q/ha) were recorded with application of sulphur 60 kg/ha. Which justify its superiority over rest of the treatment while minimum Growth and Yield parameters were recorded 0kg S/ha.

The broad spectrum of conjunctival tumors ranges from non-neoplastic benign tumors to very aggressive malignancies, such as melanoma or Kaposi's sarcoma which threat visual function and life of the patient. There is a relative paucity of large published studies documenting conjunctival lesions. In the Indian population, reported 46% of epithelial origin (benign, premalignant, and malignant neoplasm), degenerative lesions (14%), chronic non-specific inflammation (12%), melanocytic tumors (12%), lymphoid tumors (6%). Squamous cell carcinoma (20%), miscellaneous (22%), pterygium (10%), squamous papilloma (8%), and OSSN (8%). A review of a large series of conjunctival biopsy specimens from an adult US population documented the following distribution: inflammatory/degenerative lesions (12%), benign epithelial (2%), pigmented (53%), premalignant and malignant epithelial (11%), lymphoid (8%), miscellaneous (12%) and congenital lesions (2%). AIM: To study the clinical and histopathological features of conjunctival tumors at a tertiary care hospital in south Indian population. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In our study, 134 patients with conjunctival tumors followed between January 2009 and September 2010 were retrospectively reviewed. Clinical data were collected from medical records and analyzed. Of the 134 patients with conjunctival tumor, 80 were male (59.70%) and 54 were female (40.29%). The mean age of the134 patients was 35 years (range1to 95 years). In our series, the most common diagnosis of 134 lesions were, nevus 18.66% (n=25), carcinoma in situ 10.44% (n=14), dysplasia 5.97%(n=8), squamous cell carcinoma(SCC) 5.22% (n=7), haemangioma 3.73% (n=5), squamous papilloma 3.73%(n=5), limbal dermoid 2.98%(n=4), malignant melanoma 1.49% (n=2) and lymphoma 0.74 %(n=1). CONCLUSION: Nevus was found to be the most common conjunctival benign tumor. Even though squamous cell carcinoma is a rare conjunctival malignant tumor, it may be encountered in younger male population.

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