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O. R. TANNER, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1954;51(2):229-241.

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INFECTIOUS mononucleosis has become of increasing importance, particularly since the introduction of the heterophile agglutination test in 1932. The establishment of the pathologic picture of infectious mononucleosis has awakened the medical profession to the numerous problems associated with the disease. Among these are its high incidence rate, prolonged disability, and the multiple and varied manifestations of involvement of nearly every organ system of the body. Some results are permanent; death may occur.

To the present time there has been little recognition of the disease by ophthalmologists. Accounts in the American ophthalmological literature regarding any of the multiple manifestations which concern the eye apparently are confined to one report¹ of bilateral papilloretinal edema. Patients recently seen with ocular involvement of infectious mononucleosis stimulated this study.

Infectious mononucleosis is an acute, usually self-limited infectious disease of unknown etiology, characterized more commonly by fever, lymphadenopathy, acute respiratory tract symptoms, and the presence . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PALO ALTO, CALIF.

From the Palo Alto Clinic.

Footnotes
Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society, Salt Lake City, May 1, 1952.

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