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GEORGE M. HOWARD, M.D.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1962;68(5):615-620.

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Spontaneous hyphema in childhood, particularly in infancy, is commonly attributed to juvenile xanthogranuloma of the iris. The purpose of this report is to describe other causes of spontaneous hyphema. Case material from the literature and from the files of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is presented to demonstrate that spontaneous hyphema may occur in retinoblastoma, retinoschisis, retrolental fibroplasia, persistent primary hyperplastic vitreous, blood dyscrasias, and certain other less frequent conditions. Spontaneous hyphema may also occur several months after an initial episode of trauma.

Case Material and Review

Retinoblastoma.

—Retinoblastoma is occasionally associated with nontraumatic bleeding into the anterior chamber, as the following patients demonstrate. In the first patient, hyphema heralded retinoblastoma in a remaining eye. The bleeding iris tumors were apparently metastatic from the opposite orbit. In the second patient, discoloration of the iris was associated with retinoblastoma, and hyphema was an early sign of iris seeding in an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Boston

From the Department of Ophthalmology Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 27, 1962.

Read before the Section on Ophthalmology, 111th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 26, 1962.

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