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A Review of the Literature and Analysis of Results in Two Hundred Sixty-Two Cases of Ocular and Adnexal Pathology

IRWIN S. TERNER, M.D., M.Sc.; IRVING H. LEOPOLD, M.D., D.Sc.; ISADORE J. EISENBERG, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(1):52-83.

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During the past two decades there has evolved a new phase of exploration in medical science dealing with the application of artificial radioactive isotopes in medical research. Recent studies by Thomas and associates,* Town, Dunphy and associates, Eisenberg and associates, and Kennedy and associates⁹ indicate the usefulness of radioactive phosphorus in the diagnosis of intraocular neoplasms. The present study was undertaken in order to gain more experience in the use of P³² in a variety of ocular pathologic conditions and to enlarge upon the original series of cases in this laboratory, to develop a method which would differentiate between inflammation and neoplasm, and to apply this technique, if possible, to the ocular adnexa.

Artificial radioactivity was discovered by Curie and Joliot¹⁰ in 1934, but it was not until 1936, when Lawrence || and his associates developed the cyclotron, that the supply of artificially produced radioisotopes became sufficiently . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Philadelphia; Harrisburg, Pa.

From the Research Department, Wills Eye Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication Sept. 26, 1955.

Performed under Atomic Energy Commission Authority 17818.

Thesis submitted by Dr. Terner to the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medical Science for graduate work in Ophthalmology.

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