<H4>ABSTRACT</H4> <p>A 9-month-old infant presented with Horner syndrome. Magnetic resonance imaging of his head and neck was unremarkable, but magnetic resonance imaging of his chest revealed ectopic cervical thymus. The patient’s condition has been managed with imaging studies and close clinical follow-up.</p> <p><I>J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus</I> 2006;43:46-48.</p> <H4>AUTHORS</H4> <p>The authors are from the University of Tennessee—Chattanooga Unit, Chattanooga, Tennessee.</p> <p>Originally submitted September 17, 2004.</p> <p>Accepted for publication November 8, 2004.</p> <p>Address reprint requests to Lisa Mihora, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, SGOSE, 5955 Zeamer Avenue, Elmendorf AFB, AK 99506.</p> <p>Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; May 4-9, 2003; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.</p>
Accurate phenotyping is an essential part of patient care, research, and training. "Thinning" is currently used more commonly than "narrowing" in the literature to describe progressive loss of the neuroretinal rim in a radial axis. It would be appropriate to use "narrowing" for radial loss or decrease in width and "thinning" for decrease in the thickness of the rim.
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