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REPORT OF CASES

MARTIN COHEN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1930;4(3):368-373.

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A report of an unrecognized case of retinoblastoma (Verhoeff), generally known as glioma retinae, and another of a pseudoretinoblastoma, are of diagnostic value, as similar cases have only occasionally been recorded in the literature. The unusual histories and clinical features presented by the patients are described. The patients were brought to the Manhattan Ear and Eye Hospital within a short period of each other. In each case, the history and the manifestations of the eye suggested a diagnosis in which several ophthalmologists concurred; nevertheless, neither was confirmed by the microscopic diagnosis.

Retinoblastoma is a rare condition, especially in the colored race. On request, Dr. E. Phinizy Calhoun kindly sent me the following report concerning the frequency of glioma of the retina in colored infants at the Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Ga.: "I find that the records show only one case since 1921, out of 49,036 patients. The eye in this . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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NEW YORK

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 1, 1930.

Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the Eighty-First Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Detroit, June, 1930.

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