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Robert Y. Foos, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1969;82(5):620-632.

Abstract
Zonular traction tufts of the peripheral retina were found in 15% of the 750 autopsy cases studied, were bilateral in 15%, and, thus, were present in 9% of the 1,500 eyes examined. These lesions were present at birth and occurred with equal frequency in all decades beyond the first. Of the affected eyes, 64% had one lesion, 33% had two to three, and 3% had four or more lesions. Eighty-one percent of the tufts were found in the nasal quadrants, 58% in the inferior quadrants. Six percent of the tufts were longer than 1.00 mm; 16% were based farther than 0.5 mm behind ora serrata. Trophic complications included holes in the base of tufts (partial in 10%; full-thickness in 4%). Tractional complications included rupture of tuft (5%) and full-thickness tears (three cases).

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

From the Department of Pathology and the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 11, 1969.

Read before the Section on Ophthalmology of the 118th annual convention of the American Medical Association, New York, July 14, 1969.

Reprint requests to the Department of Pathology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90024.

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