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CAPTAIN FREDERICK H. THEODORE

Arch Ophthal. 1944;31(2):138-143.

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The question of congenital corneal opacities was one of the first to attract the attention of the older ophthalmologists. Controversial theories have been postulated as to the origin of such opacities, but none has been universally accepted. With the exception of perhaps one article, apparently no studies of this condition have appeared in the American literature.

The unusual opportunity offered me of examining 6 patients with this anomaly, 2 of them sisters, in whom the opacities were associated with anterior synechiae and other developmental defects, prompted this report, in the hope that it would throw additional light on a somewhat obscure subject.

REPORT OF CASES

Case 1.—Frances T., aged 6 years, was first seen by me on Feb. 7, 1942 at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, through permission of Dr. S. Falk. The ocular condition had been present since birth. Vision in the right eye was limited to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

From the Station Hospital, Miami Beach Training Base, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, Miami Beach, Fla.

Footnotes
Presented in part at a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, Section of Ophthalmology, May 18, 1942.

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