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JAMES S. SHIPMAN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1934;11(3):503-512.

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Coloboma of the optic nerve is a rare, congenital anomaly, especially when it is unassociated with defects of the surrounding choroid. Vossius¹ found this condition present in only three of twelve thousand persons examined. Caspar,² in 1887, collected reports of twenty cases, and Saemisch and his co-workers,³ in 1891, increased this number to forty-eight. Coats,⁴ in 1907, added six more cases, in all of which he had made microscopic studies and verified the diagnosis.

In 1912, Crampton,⁵ in an extensive review of the literature, could find only twenty-one cases of true coloboma of the optic nerve, and these occurred in sixteen patients. Included in this group were the six unequivocal cases of Coats,⁴ together with three cases of his own. Since that time other cases have been reported. Calhoun,⁶ in 1930, reported a bilateral case associated with holes in the disk and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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CAMDEN, N. J.

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