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Louis Daily, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1970;83(4):406-411.

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IN FOCAL illumination by a very narrow slit-lamp beam through the Goldmann contact lens, I have seen a splinter of retinal tissue protruding from the foveola, frequently in persons over 60 years of age and occasionally in persons under the age of 40 (Fig 1 and 2). By direct ophthalmoscopy in parallax, the splinter gives only an impression of a protrusion. It projects forward and axially from the edge of the umbo—the center of the foveolar pit—and varies in length, being no longer than the umbo's width. In some cases it is a nub on the side of the pit, rather than a splinter (Fig 3). In two eyes the splinter was attached to the side of a shallow, narrow, lamellar defect at the foveola. It has been associated in every case with detachment of the posterior hyaloid membrane of the vitreous from the macula. No retinovitreal adhesion or adjacent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Houston

From the Daily Eye Clinic, Houston.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb 21, 1969.

Read before the Mayo Alumni Association of Eye Fellows, Rochester, Minn, Oct 1968.

Reprint requests to Daily Eye Clinic, 1517 The Medical Towers Building, Houston 77025 (Dr. Daily).

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