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A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE SINCE THE APPEARANCE OF JUNIUS AND KUHNT'S PAPER, 1926

FRANCIS HEED ADLER, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1933;10(3):379-386.

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In 1923, Coppez and Danis reported a number of cases of macular disease in elderly people under the title "Senile Macular Exudative Retinitis." The outstanding feature of all of these cases was an exudate in the macular region which gradually increased in size and pushed forward into the vitreous, giving the appearance of tumor formation

In 1926, Junius and Kuhnt published a monograph entitled "Disciform Degeneration of the Macula," and included under this heading a number of macular lesions occurring in persons past middle life and having certain Ophthalmoscopic features in common. In general, the cases described by Junius and Kuhnt have many of the features of those described by Coppez and Danis. They stressed the feature, however, that the macular exudation has a disklike contour, and because of this they gave the condition the name "disciform degeneration."

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Footnotes
Read before the Section on Ophthalmology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, March 16, 1933.

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