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REPORT OF TWENTY-TWO CASES IN FIVE SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS

B. N. PITTENGER, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1935;13(6):1051-1055.

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Ectopia lentis is a congenital, and ordinarily a bilateral and symmetrical, displacement of the crystalline lens, and from the number of reports in the literature it is of comparatively rare occurrence. Knapp¹ observed that it occurred approximately once in five thousand cases. Zentmayer² stated that the case presented by Horner and Maisler³ before the Section on Ophthalmology of the American Medical Association in 1933 was the first brought before that body since 1898. Von Graefe,⁴ in 1854, was the first to record this condition in the literature. Several investigators have written of the striking hereditary tendency of the disease. Folk⁵ quoted Adams as reporting seven cases in one family of nine members. Cameron⁶ reported that in four successive generations the condition involved fourteen persons, only one of whom was a male. Kennedy⁷ reported a case in a family showing a decided . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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