This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (14)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

BERNARD F. DONOVAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(5):672-675.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The neurilemoma, a benign nerve sheath tumor, has been reported in the orbit a number of times.¹ Intraocular examples, however, are rare. The following case is reported for this reason, and, in addition, the clinical history is of considerable interest, since the tumor in this instance closely simulated an intraocular malignant melanoma.

REPORT OF A CASE

A 68-year-old white woman, was admitted to Strong Memorial Hospital on Nov. 14, 1949, for a cataract extraction. Her only complaint was impaired visual acuity at distance and near in the right eye. This was first noted about two years previously.

Positive physical findings were limited to the chest, where a faint apical systolic murmur was heard.

The ocular examination showed a corrected visual acuity of 20/200 O. D. and 20/30 -4 O. S. The external structures were normal; the pupils were of equal size and reacted promptly to light. Slit-lamp examination revealed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Rochester, N. Y.

From the Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Footnotes
Received for publication Feb. 10, 1956.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?