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Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(5):673.

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This case, which was seen from the first by Alt, is described in the fullest detail and seems to throw a great deal of light as to the manner in which hemorrhages in the retina bring about secondary glaucoma. The eye came to enucleation and was examined carefully in every part, an account of which it is impossible to give here in any detail. The general conclusions, however, which seem to be justified by a careful study of the case are that the disease is primarily one of thrombosis or thrombophlebitis of the larger venous blood-vessels, which leads to rupture of their walls and effusion of blood.

Some of this blood funds its way into the vitreous and is carried by the lymph current of the vitreous to the filtration angle at the base of the iris, causing a plugging up of this space and a consequent obstruction to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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