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Report of a Case

HANS J. STERN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1949;42(4):438-442.

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IN 1940 Sydenstricker and his associates¹ published their observations on corneal vascularization in man, which was similar to that described previously by Bessey and Wolbach² in rats maintained on riboflavin-deficient diet. Since then a large number of papers on the subject have appeared, and the first enthusiastic response of confirmation soon made way to criticism and doubt; the latter trend, as happens frequently, shifted the general opinion far in the opposite direction, causing a number of workers to deny the existence of corneal vascularity as a result of ariboflavinosis in man. This negative attitude seems to have taken root to a certain extent in the collective mind of ophthalmologists.

Corneal vascularity caused by riboflavin deficiency is a clinical entity. It is probably true that it cannot be diagnosed by its morphologic aspect alone, although the appearance of regular, fine capillaries in the entire circumference of the cornea, which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
UTICA, N. Y.

From the Nutrition Clinic of the Department of Health of the City of New York, and the Special Eye Bank Clinic of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New York.

Footnotes
Research Fellow of Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.

Part of the expenses connected with this investigation was met by a grant from the Nutrition Clinic Fund.

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