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Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:1554.

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Detachment of the retina is found in percent of all eye patients, and in 4.74 per cent of all the blind. Its chief cause is cyclo-choroiditis with consecutive changes in the vitreous. The retina, in the opinion of the writer, is separated from its support rather by the subretinal choroidal effusion than by the shrinkage of the vitreous and the contraction of cords. Myopic eyes furnish by far the greatest contingent.

From the year 1879 to 1896, 106 cases of spontaneous detachment (59 in men, 47 in women) have come to the notice of the author. In 9 cases the detachment was in both eyes. The intraocular tension was normal in 60 cases, diminished in 46, increased in none. Myopia was present in 84.

Of the 106 cases 35 had been under observation before, during, and years after, the advent of the detachment, so that their ultimate condition may . . . [Full Text of this Article]