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Report of a Case

DAVID G. COGAN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1949;42(5):666-682.

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ENDOGENOUS fungous infections of the interior of the eyes are rare. Müller (1903)¹ described metastatic nodules in the retina from miliary actinomycosis arising in the lungs. Dimmer (1914) reported choroidoscleritis due to a fungus thought to be Aspergillus fumigatus. Stock (1926)³ reported abscesses of the vitreous and retina caused apparently by identical fungi. Verhoeff (1924)⁴ reported a case of uveitis caused by an actinomycete-like organism in one eye of a patient after a postoperative infection by a fungus of a similar type in the fellow eye. Verhoeff (1926)⁵ also reported idiopathic retinochoroiditis caused by a similar organism occurring in a patient after a febrile illness. Churchill and Stober (1914)⁶ recovered blastomycetes from the vitreous of an eye of a patient with systemic blastomycosis, but no description of the ocular lesion was given. Schwartz (1931)⁷ reported hypopyon iritis in one eye caused by a blastomycete . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
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From the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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