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Arch Ophthalmol. 1999;117:246.

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During the past eighteen months we have given intensive roentgen therapy to the posterior ocular segment in a series of patients with ocular diseases characterized by retinal and vitreous hemorrhages, with secondary fibrous tissue formation and with new-formed blood vessels extending into the vitreous. A total of 22 eyes in 14 patients have been so treated. The ocular disease was classified as typical Eales's disease in 8 of these patients, as atypical Eales's disease in 4 patients and as diabetic retinitis proliferans in 2 patients.

. . . Depending of the dose of roentgen radiation given, there were moderate to complete collapse of new-formed vessels and variable regression of fibrosis.

Reference: Guyton JS, Reese AB. Use of roentgen therapy for retinal diseases characterized by new-formed blood vessels (Eales's disease; retinitis proliferans). Arch Ophthalmol. 1949;40:389, 406