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Eduardo Cunha de Souza, MD; Antonio M. B. Casella, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(10):1390-1394.

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Classic active ocular toxoplasmosis affects the full-thickness retina with associated vitreous reaction ("light in the fog" appearance).^1-4 The observation and demonstration of deep retinal involvement in toxoplasmosis was first introduced by Gass² in 1968. Once Gass introduced this concept, other variations on nonclassic retinal toxoplasmosis were described.^3-5 Later that year, Friedmann and Knox³ described new morphologic presentations of ocular toxoplasmosis affecting the retina. Punctate lesions localized in the outer (punctate outer toxoplasmosis) or inner (punctate inner toxoplasmosis) portions of the retina were first described by these authors. It was only in 1985 that Doft and Gass⁵ elucidated the outer variation of punctate toxoplasmosis and introduced the term punctate outer retinal toxoplasmosis (PORT). According to these authors, PORT is a subset of ocular toxoplasmosis that initially and primarily affects the outer retinal layers of the macular area, with only mild vitreous . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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