MEETING REPORT Annual meeting of the Canadian Ophthalmic Pathology Society T he 36th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Oph- thalmic Pathology Society was held in conjunc- tion with the Canadian Ophthalmological Society annual meeting on June 13, 2002, in Hull, Que. The meeting featured 16 case presentations and a pictorial tribute to the late Dr. Mourad Khalil given by Dr. Seymour Brownstein. The invited guest of the Society was Prof. Philip Luthert, professor of pathology at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, who presented a case of neurofibromatosis type 1 with buphthalmos and a staphyloma. Other presentations included discussions of central cloudy corneal dystrophy of Fran<;ois (Dr. Janice Safneck, Winnipeg), invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva (Dr. Rod Willis, London, Ont.), conjunctival peripheral T-cell lymphoma (Dr. Jim J 70 CAN J OPHTHALMOL-VOL. 37, NO. 6, 2002 Farmer, Ottawa), mantle cell lymphoma of the orbit (Dr. Valerie White, Vancouver), intraocular blastomycosis (Dr. Yeni Yiicel, Toronto), a vasoproliferative tumour of the fundus (Dr. Hugh McGowan, Toronto) and orbital varix (Dr. Seymour Brownstein). Two presentations dealt with the pathology of combined retinal pigment epithelial and retinal hamartoma, presenting as a pigmented choroidal lesion in a 5-month-old in one case (Dr. Allan Oryschak, Calgary) and identified in a patient with an optic nerve sheath meningioma and neurofibromatosis type 2 in the other (Dr. Godfrey Heathcote, London, Ont.). A short business meeting was held at the end of the afternoon. The program for the 2003 meeting will be organized by Dr. Godfrey Heathcote. The meeting is open to all who are interested in clinicopathological correlation in eye diseases. ]. Godfrey Heathcote, MB, PhD, FRCPC London, Ont.

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MEETING REPORT

Annual meeting of the Canadian Ophthalmic Pathology Society

The 36th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Ophthalmic Pathology Society was held in conjunc

tion with the Canadian Ophthalmological Society annual meeting on June 13, 2002, in Hull, Que. The meeting featured 16 case presentations and a pictorial tribute to the late Dr. Mourad Khalil given by Dr. Seymour Brownstein. The invited guest of the Society was Prof. Philip Luthert, professor of pathology at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, who presented a case of neurofibromatosis type 1 with buphthalmos and a staphyloma.

Other presentations included discussions of central cloudy corneal dystrophy of Fran<;ois (Dr. Janice Safneck, Winnipeg), invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva (Dr. Rod Willis, London, Ont.), conjunctival peripheral T-cell lymphoma (Dr. Jim

J 70 CAN J OPHTHALMOL-VOL. 37, NO. 6, 2002

Farmer, Ottawa), mantle cell lymphoma of the orbit (Dr. Valerie White, Vancouver), intraocular blastomycosis (Dr. Yeni Yiicel, Toronto), a vasoproliferative tumour of the fundus (Dr. Hugh McGowan, Toronto) and orbital varix (Dr. Seymour Brownstein). Two presentations dealt with the pathology of combined retinal pigment epithelial and retinal hamartoma, presenting as a pigmented choroidal lesion in a 5-month-old in one case (Dr. Allan Oryschak, Calgary) and identified in a patient with an optic nerve sheath meningioma and neurofibromatosis type 2 in the other (Dr. Godfrey Heathcote, London, Ont.).

A short business meeting was held at the end of the afternoon.

The program for the 2003 meeting will be organized by Dr. Godfrey Heathcote. The meeting is open to all who are interested in clinicopathological correlation in eye diseases.

]. Godfrey Heathcote, MB, PhD, FRCPC London, Ont.