We thank Drs Singh and Stewart for their interest in our paper. We agree that time is definitely the essence for operating on an unstable super-temporal macula on rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

The earliest surgical microscopes in the operating room. Brinell-Leitz monocular microscope used by Carl Olof Nyle?n (left), the modified Brinell microscope (center) and Zeiss binocular microscope ...

Mechanical engineers and collaborators have developed a handheld microscope to help doctors and dentists distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells in an office setting or operating room.