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HARRY A. EASOM, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1963;70(6):786-790.

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It is well known that the development of sympathetic ophthalmia is almost always secondary to an accidental or surgical penetrating wound of the eye. Of the few recorded cases without a previous penetrating wound, the majority are claimed to have been secondary to an intraocular malignant melanoma.

Since the classical description of the histologic characteristics of sympathetic ophthalmia by E. Fuchs¹ in 1905, there have been a number of isolated reports of this condition associated with malignant melanoma.

In reviewing these reports, it becomes apparent that in most cases in which a penetrating wound can be satisfactorily excluded, the tumor has produced an extraocular extension.

In the American literature the only two cases of malignant melanoma thought to have caused sympathetic ophthalmia without an associated penetrating wound or extraocular extension are those of Schwartz² ( 1927) and of Riwchun and Decoursey³ (1941). Riwchun and DeCoursey reviewed the literature . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Milwaukee

From the Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington 25, DC.; Present address: 2266 North Prospect Ave, Milwaukee 2, Wis.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 25, 1963.

This study was supported in part by a Fight for Sight Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the National Council to Combat Blindness, Inc., New York; and in part by a Fellowship of the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation.

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