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REPORT OF SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT IN ONE CASE

PHILIP MERIWETHER LEWIS, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1943;30(2):250-254.

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Angiomatosis retinae is a relatively rare condition. Many experienced ophthalmologists have never seen it. Bedell¹ in 1931 found that less than 100 cases had been reported. Cordes and Hogan² in 1940 found that the number in the literature had risen to 135. Since that time about 10 additional cases have been reported.³ The first description of the condition was in 1882 by Fuchs,⁴ who considered it an arteriovenous aneurysm. Wood⁵ in 1892 and Collins⁶ in 1894 described the next cases. Von Hippel⁷ was apparently the first to realize that the disease is a clinical entity, and since his publication in 1904 the condition has been called von Hippel's disease. In 1927 Lindau⁸ reported that angiomatous tumors of the retina were often part of a general disorder characterized by angiomatous cysts of the cerebellum, medulla, spinal cord, adrenals, kidneys, liver, epididymis and ovaries. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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MEMPHIS, TENN.

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