abstract：:Of 42 patients studied who had fundus flavimaculatus and Stargardt's disease, most had reduced visual acuity due to an atrophic macular lesion. Family histories were consistent with autosomal-recessive inheritance. In some young patients, the yellow-white flecks developed with time, while in some older patients the fl...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hadden OB,Gass JD

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 23 conjunctival melanomas using the Clark classification revealed that the three most common forms of melanoma described in the skin--lentigo maligna melanoma (Hutchinson's freckle with melanoma), superficial spreading melanoma, and nodular melanoma--can be recognized in the conjunctiva. As in...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Bernardino VB,Naidoff MA,Clark WH

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old man developed conjunctivitis, epiphora, pancytopenia, dermatitis, and a polyclonal gammopathy. Diffuse infiltration and thickening of the conjunctiva and lacrimal canaliculi by plasma cells was present. Histopathologic examination suggested a reactive, chronic inflammatory response rather than neoplasia....

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Yee RD,Savage DD,Cogan DG,Nienhuis AW,Minna JD

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between the retinal and the choroidal circulation occurred in one case of proliferative diabetic retinopathy and one case of Leber's disease (multiple miliary aneurysms) after argon laser photocoagulation treatment to eliminate abnormal retinal vasculature. In both instances rapid-sequence fluorescein an...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Galinos SO,McMeel JW,Trempe CL,Schepens CL

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old man had a clinically suspected malignant melanoma in his left eye. On microscopic study, the enucleated eye harbored an unusual choroidal tumor that had extended extraocularly. This tumor had been variously interpreted microscopically as an angiosarcoma, an atpical angioma, a glioma, or a neurilemoma. El...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Jakobiec FA,Witschel H,Zimmerman LE

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Follow-up examinations, ranging from four to more than 20 years, were performed on 100 patients with chronic cyclitis whose ages at onset were from 4 to 58 years. Cataracts were found in 42% of eyes and macular disease secondary to macular edema in 28% of eyes. Band keratopathy, glaucoma, retinal detachment, retinosch...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Smith RE,Godfrey WA,Kimura SJ

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve patients (14 eyes) had intraocular pressure elevations induced by repository coritcosteroids. The duration and severity of the resulting pressure elevations were directly related to the decreasing solubility of the agent employed. Ten patitens had received intensive topical corticosteroids before injection, res...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Herschler J

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of two patients with type 5 hyperlipoproteinemia, one exhibited lipemia retinalis with multiple retinal hemorrhages and intraretinal lipid extravasations. Postmortem examination showed hemorrhages in the inner retinal layers and lipid deposits largely in the outer plexiform layer. Lipid within the walls of the retinal...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kurz GH,Shakib M,Sohmer KK,Friedman AH

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 45 patients with low-tension glaucoma revealed the mean age at diagnosis to be 66 years. Seventeen patients had follow-up visual field examinations, the average follow-up period being 6.4 years. There was no significant difference in prognosis of the ocular course between patients with Po/C eq...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Chumbley LC,Brubaker RF

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescein angiography was safely performed in 100 consecutive cases of cataract extraction during the first postoperative week. Seventy-five percent of the 100 eyes had good quality fluorescein angiograms. Four eyes demonstrated cystoid macular edema. Therefore, the incidence of cystoid macular edema in the first we...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Klein RM,Yannuzzi L

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A self-retaining contact lens for slit-lamp examination and photocoagulation treatment of the posterior fundus afforded a wide-angle view of the retina and allowed freedom of both hands of the examiner. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Sebestyen JG

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 415 consecutive eyes operated on for retinal detachment, there were no apparent retinal breaks in 41 eyes. Examination of the most likely site for breaks during, or shortly after, cryotherapy was helpful in detecting tiny breaks in several cases. All detachments without apparent breaks were o...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Griffith RD,Ryan EA,Hilton GF

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the in vivo measurements of the autofluorescence of the clear lens in 80 juvenile diabetics and 25 young healthy subjects. When the diabetes was of seven years' duration or more, no overlap with the control subjects was found. The pathologic autofluorescence of the diabetic lens showed a positive correlatio...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Helve J,Nieminen H

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred consecutive eyes underwent vitrectomy with the disposable vitrophage via a pars plana approach. Eyes were divided into two main categories based on opacity location-in the anterior or posterior segment. Patients with posterior segment opacities had diabetic retinopathy, nondiabetic vitreous hemorrhages, re...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Peyman GA,Huamonte FU,Goldberg MF

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intralenticular hemorrhage is a rare complication of glaucoma surgery. In a 45-year-old man, the intralenticular blood caused loss of the red reflex from the fundus postoperatively. Clinically, hemorrhage into the lens has usually been misdiagnosed initially as a hyphema. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Ferry AP

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 59 patients with traumatic hyphema studied prospectively, 32 received aminocaproic acid, an antifibrinolytic agent, to prevent secondary hemorrhage. The remaining 27 patients received placebo in an identical manner. Of the aminocaproic acid-treated patients, only one (3%) rebled, while nine patients (33%) receiving...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Crouch ER Jr,Frenkel M

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A white male infant was born with multiple hemangiomas of the skin and mucous membrane. At 7 months of age he exhibited the signs and symptoms of infantile glaucoma in each eye, but goniotomy was not possible because of vascularity in the angles. Cyclocryotherapy was used on multiple occasions to control intraocular p...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Weiss MJ,Ernest JT

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients with malignant epithelial tumors of the conjunctiva were treated with beta-ray ocular applicators filled with radioactive strontium and yttrium (90Sr/90Y). Histologic examination confirmed the diagnosis. There were ten squamous cell carcinomas, four carcinomas in situ, and one case of epidermidalizati...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Lommatzsch P

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old boy had a case of ischemic infarction of the retina that occurred immediately after percutaneous carotoid angiography via a femoral percutaneous approach. This appears to be the youngest reported patient with this complication. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Carlson MR,Pilger IS,Rosenbaum AL

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-year-old black man with acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy had concurrent positive viral cultures and rising antibodies to adenovirus type 5. This finding, considered together with earlier reports of viral-like syndromes accompanying the disease, supports the implication of a respiratory vi...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Azar P Jr,Gohd RS,Waltman D,Gitter KA

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A countrywide prevalence survey of 9,508 children was conducted in El Salvador to determine the prevalence of anterior-segment abnormalities and magnitude of clinical vitamin A deficiency. Thirty-six children had corneal opacities, 56% of them secondary to trauma. Such traumatic corneal opacities were 19 times more fr...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Sommer A,Quesada J,Doty M,Faich G

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 29-year-old white man developed a corneal ulcer following trauma to his left cornea by a piece of wire. Tritirachium roseum, a saprophytic fungus, was cultured from corneal scrapings and demonstrated in the corneal button by histopathologic examination. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Rodrigues MM,Laibson P

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 45 patients with proliferative sickle retinopathy in stages III, IV, and V, nine patients (eight with hemoglobin SC disease, one with sickle cell thalassemia) showed spontaneous regression (autoinfarction) of retinal sea fans. One mechanism involved in autoinfarction of neovascular tissue is progressive, centripeta...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Nagpal KC,Patrianakos D,Asdourian GK,Goldberg MF,Rabb M,Jampol L

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with polyradiculomyeloneuropathy after acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) infection were studied serologically. All except one patient had neutralization titers larger than or equal to 1:16 against the prototype J670/71 strain of AHC virus in at least one of their serum samples. The development of a ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hung TP,Green IJ,Sung SM

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal volunteers used 1, 2, and 4% pilocarpine eyedrops, three times daily, or ocular therapeutic systems placed in the conjunctival cul-de-sac to control intraocular pressure. The systems continuously release 20 and 40 mug/hour of pilocarpine for one week. Although the amount of drug delivered to the eye from the o...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Place VA,Fisher M,Herbst S,Gordon L,Merrill R

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraocular bacterial culture was performed in 100 patients with hypovitaminosis A xerophthalmia. There was corneal ulceration in 29 cases and corneal perforation in 22 cases. Eighty-six percent of the patients harbored frankly pathogenic bacteria (46 patients) and potentially pathogenic bacteria (40 patients). All bu...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Valenton MJ,Tan RV

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo sites of the blood-aqueous barrier were determined in five animal species, using acriflavine neutral (224 mol. wt.), ultrafreezing and drying, fluorescence microscopy, and fluorometry. Not toxic, acriflavine had specific in vivo affinity for nuclear DNA and RNA, produced intense fluorescence, and did not p...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Rodriguez-Peralta L

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21-year-old white woman had an apparently benign fibrous histiocytoma at the corneoscleral limbus. By histopathologic and ultrastructural studies, the tumor consisted of lipid-containing histiocytes and fibrocytic cells arranged in a storiform configuration with a collagenous interstitium. After an excision, the les...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Faludi JE,Kenyon K,Green WR

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 11 of 12 eyes with chronic simple glaucoma after surgery for retinal detachment, intraocular pressures were decreased for one to 5 1/2 years without any antiglaucomatous treatment. No further deterioration in the state of the optic disks or the visual fields occurred in any of these eyes. In all 12 fellow eyes anti...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Friedman Z,Neumann E

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleomycin was administered to 126 normal or human-tumor-bearing baby rats we observed for the development of cataracts. Eighty-four percent of the rats receiving this drug before the age of 10 days developed lens opacities. Bleomycin given to 10-day-old rats or older did not induce cataract formation. The cataracts in...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Edwards GA,Bernardino VB Jr,Babcock VI,Southam CM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no single method of perimetric examination which is applicable to all types of visual field defects. Perimetry is a subjective psychophysical sensory examination. It is not an exact science unless one includes the objective measurement of visual evoked response in the optic cortex. Until such a method becomes...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Harrington DO

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed strabismus surgery on 170 children on an outpatient basis. Endotracheal intubation was utilized in all cases as the means of delivery of the anesthetic agent. Atropine used alone as a preoperative medication reduced the incidence of postoperative vomiting. Parental acceptance of this method of surgery was...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Weinstock SM,Flynn JT

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In five cases choroidal malignant melanoma spontaneously converted from epitheloid to spindle cell and vice versa. The cultured epitheloid cells divided more frequently and grew faster than the spindle cells. Cells from one tumor were cloned and developed into a cell line. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Irvine AR,Mannagh J,Arya DV

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard retinal function tests are of limited value in assessing retinal function in eyes with opaque vitreous. We developed a method for obtaining an electroretinogram (ERG) from eyes with significant vitreous opacity by utilizing a much brighter than normal stimulating light. Of 115 eyes with vitreous opacities and...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Fuller DG,Knighton RW,Machemer R

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small piece of Ping-Pong ball material fitted to a Burian-Allen contact lens electrode provided a large field of evenly distributed light on the retina that resulted in larger electroretinographic amplitudes and more accurate measurement of b-wave latencies. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Siegel IM

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of an immunofluorescent technique, we found factors promoting blood coagulation and platelet adhesion in the intima of retinal vessels. These factors coexisted with other agents causing the opposite process, fibrin dissolution. The components of this vascular hemostatic balance are possibly involved in the th...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Pandolfi M,Holmberg L,Turesson I

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen, adenosine triphosphate, and hydration were measured in rabbit corneal epithelium to determine whether the corneal epithelium glycogen decrease, increase in epithelial hydration, and decrease in epithelial adenosine triphosphate stores, seen as a result of contact lens wear, were secondary only to anoxia or m...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Thoft RA,Friend J

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonioscopy was performed on 110 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma over 40 years of age and an equal number of normal sugjects, matched by race and age. The frequency distribution of various angle features differed in the two groups: in the glaucoma group, there were more iris processes at all levels of inserti...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kimura R,Levene RZ

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred two cases of epibulbar tumors in children were retrospectively reviewed histologically and examined by diagnostic categories over a 49-year period. Of the 302 cases, 33% were choristomas; 29% nevi; 11%, epithelial inclusion cysts; 7%, papillomas; 6%, pyogenic granulomas; and 5% granulomas. Three cases of...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Elsas FJ,Green WR

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-Isoproterenol (ISO) applied topically to the rabbit eye specifically lowered intraocular pressure. Thus, it effectively reduced normal intraocular pressure and inhibited intraocular pressure elevation induced by water load without causing other obvious local or systemic pharmacologic effects. By comparison, dl-ISO w...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Seidehamel RJ,Dungan KW,Hickey TE

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00