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Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(6):756.

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The patient from whom the eye was taken at the autopsy died at the age of sixty-two. Two days before death I found in both eyes marked atheroma of the retinal vessels, numerous hemorrhages, and, in the right eye, the well-known picture of retinitis proliferans. The white bands, with their elevations and depressions, lay outward from the macula, and projected forward some distance into the vitreous. The patient presented general arterio-sclerosis, and died with cerebral hemorrhages.

When the eyeball was opened an elevation was found outward from the macula, having a height of 2 mm, and a maximum breadth of 3 mm.

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The retina, near the ora serrata, presents the picture of edema of the retina (Iwanoff), large cystic cavities being present. Nearer the pole of the eye the cysts become smaller, and the retina is abnormal only in the hypertrophy of Müller's fibers. To the temporal side of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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