This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE ESTHETIC RESULTS

ARCHIMEDE BUSACCA, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1936;16(5):822-828.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

For several years I have paid particular attention to the complications of trachoma, a disease that, according to statistics compiled by me, causes about 14 per cent of the ocular disorders in Brazil.

Besides studying the problems of a more or less theoretical value relating to this disease, I have paid attention to its therapy. As a result of my studies in this field I can now state that, with an opportune combination of remedies in association with technical methods which will be discussed in more detail in following articles, 1 have succeeded in obtaining the clinical cure of trachoma in all my patients.

I use the term clinical cure because I am under the impression that the disease, at least in some cases, remains in a latent stage, even though a careful objective examination and a study of tissue removed for biopsy prove that the process is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?