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REPORT OF A CASE

WILLARD G. MENGEL, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1935;13(6):981-984.

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This syndrome associated with congenital deficiency of abduction was described in detail by Duane¹ in 1905 after he had collected reports of fifty-four cases, five of which were cases of bilateral deficiency. Prior to that a number of cases had been reported by Sinclair,² Türk,³ Bahr,⁴ Friedenwald⁵ and Treacher Collins,⁶ and a complete discussion of the symptoms had been presented by J. Wolff⁷ in 1900 and by Evans⁸ in 1903. More recently Harold Gifford,⁹ Bielschowsky¹⁰ and Birch-Hirschfeld¹¹ have presented full descriptions of this complex syndrome.

The syndrome is characterized by: (1) deficiency of abduction, (2) partial deficiency of adduction, (3) retraction of the globe when the eye is adducted, (4) oblique movement when adduction is attempted, (5) narrowing of the palpebral fissure during adduction and (6) deficiency of convergence.

A varied clinical picture is presented by this syndrome, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CAMDEN, N. J.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Ophthalmology, College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Nov. 15, 1934.

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