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CAPTAIN H. SAUL SUGAR

Arch Ophthal. 1943;30(2):259-261.

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The disappearance or diminution in degree of accommodative esotropia during cycloplegia is frequently encountered and is explained on the basis of the Donders theory of accommodation-convergence association. The appearance of, or an increase in, esotropia during cycloplegia has hitherto not been reported. Four cases of this paradoxic esotropia are therefore being reported, together with a probable explanation of the phenomenon.

REPORT OF CASES

CASE 1.

—Lieutenant A. N. D., aged 33, had visual acuity in the right eye of 20/70, with ability to read Jaeger type 7, corrected to 20/30, Jaeger type 2, and in the left eye of 20/20, with ability to read Jaeger type 2, corrected to 20/20, Jaeger type 1. The patient was first seen on Jan. 13, 1942, at which time a right exotropia, varying from 8 to 20 prism diopters for 20 feet (610 cm.) and 2 to 34 prism diopters for 15 inches (38 cm.) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

From the Eye Clinic of the Barnes General Hospital, Vancouver, Wash.

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