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LEE ALLEN; ALSON E. BRALEY, M.D.; HARVEY E. THORPE, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1954;51(4):451-455.

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THE GONIOSCOPIC contact prism shown in Figure 1 incorporates four internal reflecting surfaces to facilitate examination of the angle of the anterior chamber of the eye. Such an improvement over the original prism, described in 1945,¹ had been attempted before the first publication, but the speculum could not retain the heavy prism against the cornea. A subsequent change in the design of the speculum would have overcome this difficulty, but advantage was not taken of this opportunity until 1951, when a second mirror² was added in a successful modification of the original design. Thorpe's instrument required fewer manipulations and thus shortened and simplified the examination. The instrument described here is a further step in the same direction, made possible by redesigning several of the mechanical features of the device.

The new instrument consists of the prism (A, Fig. 1); a speculum (B), with a spherical flange (a) to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IOWA CITY; PITTSBURGH

From the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Iowa College of Medicine.

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