A study of 419 phthisical patients referred during a period of six years, from January 1, 1906, to January 1, 1912, to the Social Service Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital ...

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Back to Healio I recently saw a patient with a phthisical eye due to multiple vitrectomies and a chronic retinal detachment, and the examining intern pointed out the band keratopathy forming in ...

Based on: Lectures on Surgery. By David W. Cheever, A.B., M.D. (Harv.), Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, in the Medical School of Harvard University; Senior Surgeon of ...

Pretreatment screening showed normal vision in her left eye. The right eye had been phthisical for 10 years, with no light perception. Reduced vision (6/120) developed in the left eye 4 days after ...

Patients with two or more PPVs developed hypotony (IOP ≤5). There were five eyes with hypotony, one of which became phthisical. Conclusion Trans-scleral diode laser cyclophotocoagulation is a ...

Gallie and colleagues [4] described 34 retinal tumors exhibiting no clinical malignant features. Most of these patients had either a family history of retinoblastoma or atypical retinoblastoma in ...