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SAMUEL J. KIMURA, M.D.; MICHAEL J. HOGAN, M.D.; PHILLIPS THYGESON, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1954;51(1):80-88.

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UVEITIS in children, though relatively uncommon, may be a very distressing problem. The literature on the subject is scant and for the most part incidental to reports concerned with toxoplasmosis,* sarcoidosis,⁶ or juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (Still's disease). The only series of children with uveitis was reported by Thomson¹³ (1928), whose 10 cases had in common a chronic course, uveal tract disturbance without visible fundus change or iritis, and unilateral involvement; apparently the etiology was unknown. Ravin¹⁴ (1944) described a case of iritis following measles in a 3-year-old girl; Hallett¹⁵ reported a case of iridocyclitis coincident with chickenpox in a 7-year-old boy, and Wilder¹⁶ (1950) reported the finding of nematode larvae in the granulomatous lesions of a series of eyes enucleated from children.

The purpose of the present study was to analyze all the cases of childhood uveitis seen in connection with the uveitis survey being . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the 102d Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York, June 3, 1953.

This work was supported by funds provided by the Snyder Ophthalmic Foundation.

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