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BENJAMIN RONES, MD; LORENZ E. ZIMMERMAN, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1963;70(1):30-32.

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The difficulties in differential diagnosis of so-called "dark fundus lesions" are well known to all ophthalmologists. The following report concerns a most unusual example.

A 68-year-old white man had attacks of pain in the right eye, blurring of vision, and rainbows around lights, lasting between one-half to one hour and of inconstant frequency. He had had corneal foreign bodies removed, but there was no history of penetrating injury. Visual acuity was corrected to 20/50-1 OD and 20/20 OS. The intraocular pressure was 17.3 mm Hg (Schiotz) OD and 14.6 OS. Ophthalmoscopic examination through a widely dilated pupil and by various techniques showed an elevated pigmented lesion of the fundus just inferior and nasal to the disk. The possibility of a melanocytoma¹ was considered, but the lesion appeared not to involve the nerve-head. It was about three disk diameters in size and protruded into the vitreous. The eye was enucleated . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Washington, DC

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 21, 1962.

This case, drawn from the Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology, was presented to the Ophthalmic Pathology Club April 9, 1962. From the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

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