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DAHAR CURY, M.D.; ARNOLD S. BREAKEY; BRITTAIN F. PAYNE, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(2):261-266.

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Allergic granulomatous angiitis is one of the group of collagen diseases characterized by necrotizing lesions permeated with eosinophiles. The first clinical report of a similar disease was called periarteritis nodosa by von Rokitansky¹ in 1852. Kussmaul and Maier² described the pathological findings in 1866. Periarteritis nodosa, a systemic disease with ocular manifestations, was subdivided into three distinct pathological entities by Zeek.³ One of these subdivisions, allergic granulomatous angiitis of the eye, has received little mention in the literature. An opportunity to study the eye of a patient with this disease presented itself at the Eno Laboratory of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in March, 1954, following enucleation at Lenox Hill Hospital.

REPORT OF A CASE

A woman of European origin, 67 years old, was admitted to New York Hospital in May, 1949, complaining of anorexia, weight loss, and severe weakness. Indistinct margins of the optic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov. 28, 1955.

Aided by a grant from the Ophthalmological Foundation.

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