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BERTHA A. KLIEN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1939;22(3):432-438.

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E. Fuchs¹ in 1908 suggested the name diktyoma for a group of rare tumors arising from the pars ciliaris retinae, as their main characteristic is the production of membranes resembling the embryonic retina. Before 1908 4 instances of such tumors were reported. In chronologic sequence, the authors of these reports were Badal and Lagrange,² who classified the tumor as an adenocarcinoma; Emanuel,³ who termed it a glioma of the pars ciliaris retinae; Verhoeff,⁴ who gave it the rather appropriate name of teratoneuroma, and Ginsberg,⁵ who called it a malignant epithelioma of the ciliary body.

Since then a total of 3 other cases has been added—one by Greeves,⁶ a second by Velhagen⁷ and the third by Böck.⁸

These tumors have the following features in common: (1) the young, usually infantile, age of the patient (the respective ages in the aforementioned reports were 8, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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