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REPORT OF TEN CASES

ARNOLD KNAPP, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1932;8(5):637-648.

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Optic atrophy with excavation of the disk and especially with marginal cupping, as seen in glaucoma, is a puzzling condition when the intra-ocular tension is persistently low. In these cases a diagnosis of glaucoma is generally made notwithstanding the subnormal tension. This curious and contradictory condition has been explained in the following ways :

Some authors believe that during a preceding stage the tension has been sufficiently raised to cause cupping, but that now the tension is permanently low. E. Fuchs¹ suggested that the lamina cribrosa in these cases is particularly weak, for some unknown reason, and cannot resist even the usual normal pressure. He did not believe that a simple optic atrophy appears from the beginning with a deep excavation and nasally displaced blood vessels, and thought it more likely that a combination of optic atrophy and glaucoma simplex is present. Elschnig² denied the weakness of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read before the American Ophthalmological Society, New London, Conn., June 27, 1932.

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