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WITH MICROSCOPY OF THE GRAFT IN TWO CASES

BENJAMIN FRIEDMAN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1930;4(6):868-872.

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The Denig graft was designed by its author to check the most serious sequel of trachoma, the formation of pannus. His object was to interpose between the cornea and the diseased conjunctiva of the fornix a stratum of tissue that the infection could not bridge. He asserted that by transplanting at the upper limbus a section of the mucous membrane of the mouth, a pannus could be checked or even ameliorated. The operation was based mainly on the premise that the mucosa of the mouth was proof against the invasion of trachoma.

Partly to verify the truth of this premise and partly to improve the cosmetic results of the grafts, sections were taken from the transplants of each of two patients who had previously been operated on according to Denig's method.

EXAMINATION OF SECTIONS

The removal of the sections in both cases was done one and one-half years after . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the State Eye Hospital, Budapest, Prof. Joseph Imre, Jr., Director.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 11, 1930.

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