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OLGA SITCHEVSKA, M.D.; MARGARET SEDAM, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1943;30(2):196-206.

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Tuberculosis of the visual apparatus is not frequent and is apparently to a certain degree antagonistic to pulmonary tuberculosis ; i. e., the eye is rarely affected in tuberculosis of the lungs, and vice versa.¹ Primary tuberculosis of the conjunctiva, or the appearance of tuberculosis in the conjunctiva in a previously uninfected organism, is uncommon. It occurs in early life, before tuberculous allergy has developed, according to Duke-Elder.² From the infected conjunctiva, the bacilli enter the regional lymph nodes which drain the conjunctiva, and the primary complex after Ranke of the first stage of tuberculosis¹ is formed.

Koester³ was the first to report a case of tuberculosis of the human conjunctiva, in 1873, and Sattler,⁴ in 1874, was next, describing a tuberculous ulceration of the conjunctiva. Parinaud,⁵ in 1884, made a contribution concerning the diagnostic value of experimental inoculation of the infected conjunctival tissue into . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read before the New York Academy of Medicine, Section of Ophthalmology, April 18, 1942. A discussion of this paper appeared in the December 1942 issue of the Archives, page 1115.

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