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Report on a Family with Developmental Anomalies of Cornea, Iris, and Chamber Angle

HERMANN M. BURIAN, M.D.; M. HOBSON RICE, M.D.; LEE ALLEN

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1957;57(5):651-658.

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In a recent paper it was reported by Burian, Braley, and Allen¹ that the trabecular zone is externally visible by slit-lamp biomicroscopy in all normal eyes and that a thickening and prominence at the edge of this trabecular zone on the chamber side, constituting the so-called embryotoxon corneae posterius, is a relatively frequent occurrence. In no patient seen up to the time of publication of that paper could the region of the canal of Schlemm be identified in external examination. Ascher² had previously described a patient in whom the canal of Schlemm was visible owing to a coloboma of the corneoscleral limbus, but this case had remained unique. In the present paper we wish to report on two patients in whom we were able to observe the region of the canal of Schlemm by external slit-lamp examination and in whom we could verify this finding by gonioscopy. The . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Iowa City

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

Footnotes
Received for publication Oct. 31, 1956.

Presented by one of us (M. H. R.) at the Meeting of the Midwestern Section of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, March 17, 1956, Chicago

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