Total coloboma of the optic disc without affection of the choroid : total iridemia, ectropion uvea, and retained pupillary membrane : the clinical record of a series of congenital malformations of the eye / by Burton Chance.

  • Chance, Burton Kollock, 1868-1965.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Total coloboma of the optic disc without affection of the choroid : total iridemia, ectropion uvea, and retained pupillary membrane : the clinical record of a series of congenital malformations of the eye / by Burton Chance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0 TOTAL COLOBOMA OF AFFECTION OF THE CHOROID EMIA : ECTROPION UVEA ; PUPILLARY MEMBRANE. WITHOUT : TOTAL IRIDER- AND RETAINED I Keprlnted from American The Clinical Record of a Series of Congenital Malformations of the Eye. BY BURTON CHANCE, M. D., of Philadelphia. Ophthalmologist to the Germantown Hospital; Assistant Surgeon, Wills Hospital, Philadelphia. In analyzing the records of my private practice for the past five years, it is singularly interesting to note that there have occurred several instances of congenital anomalies of the uveal tract; in these I consider myself fortunate, because in the same period I have not seen any similar cases in the public services with which I have been associated. The occurrence of anatomic con- genital anomalies, ^s cases of unusual diseases, hap- pens like the irony of fate; if one seeks for interesting specimens none is to be found ; but when one does not expect them, they are sure to be present, and after one’s neighbor has reported an instance, or at the end of a long interval in one’s own experience, they come with repeated frequency. In my student days, during a ward class period, the surgeon was languishing for an opportunity to demonstrate a case of strangulated hernia. When almost in despair, a man presented himself in the waiting-room, and for six weeks thereafter the cla.ss was rewarded with strangulated hernias innumerable. The cases of incomplete embryologic development, which are herewith recorded, are of importance, because while the specific deformities detailed are not seldom met, they illustrate conditions in single tissues unaccom- panied by marked defects of contiguous structures, and are found in individuals whose personal and family his- tories throw no light upon the causation of deformities occurring in them.