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Patricia Chévez-Barrios, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(8):1048-1049.

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In the last 150 years, ophthalmic pathology as a defined discipline has taken shape thanks to the organized efforts of both ophthalmologists and pathologists. Ophthalmic pathology has steadily contributed to the advancement of the understanding of ocular diseases and the origin, behavior, prognosis, and treatment of ocular and periocular tumors. The practice of ophthalmic pathology has undergone changes mandated mostly by external circumstances and also by the advancement of science and technology.^1-2 In the early stages of the specialty, pioneers in the field like Dr James Wardrop were clinicians who had a special interest that took them beyond the clinical presentation into the pathologic processes of disease. Dr Wardrop studied the pathology of retinoblastoma in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the United Kingdom.^1-2 Frederick Verhoeff and Jonas Friedenwald were notable pioneers of the eye pathology field in the first half of the 20th century. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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