Epithelial corneal cyst / by J. Herbert Claiborne.

  • Claiborne, John Herbert, Jr., 1861-1922.
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: Epithelial corneal cyst / by J. Herbert Claiborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By J. HERBERT CLAIBORNE, M.D., New York, N. Y. A. C, aged 13, was struck in the left eye with a jagged stone three years ago. He remained in a darkened room for six months, when the eye became sufficiently tolerant of light and use to per- mit of his going to school. Status Presens. The eyeball is somewhat prominent and mac- lophthalmic. The cornea has a vertical scar running down the median vertical plane to the lower sclero-corneal margin, and branching above about 2 or 3 mm. from the natural position of the corneal margin into a fork. The iris is firmly attached on either side of the vertical scar to the posterior surface of the cornea, the latter structure being stippled on the nasal side of said scar; on the temporal side the cornea is not stippled, but the iris can be clearly seen in a state of tension from above downward. Springing from about the position of the fork are two translucent cysts, the one smaller than the other, — one lying toward the nose and vertically upward, the other much larger and inclined upward and outward. Between the two there is a slight sulcus, as if the walls of each at this point are merged together and attached to