On the origin of ruptures in detached retinae / by E. Treacher Collins.

  • Collins, E. Treacher (Edward Treacher), 1862-1937.
Date:
[1896]
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Credit: On the origin of ruptures in detached retinae / by E. Treacher Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eye^ some pale, straw-coloured, subretinal fluid escaped. The lens was found to be clear, and not wounded, but its capsule was adherent to the corneal scar. The vitreous was shrunken, and the retina completely detached from the ora serrata up to the optic disc. In the yellow-spot region was seen a patch of choroidal atrophy with pigmentation at its margin. Microscopical examination of this patch showed the choroid much thinned, with patches of deeply-staining round-cell exu- dation at the margin of it. The pigment epithelium over the atrophied area was in places absent, and in others' much thickened. Intimately adherent to the inner sur- face of the atrophied choroid was an isolated patch of very degenerate rebina. Case 2.—Jane H—, set. 58, was admitted to the Moor- fields Hospital under Mr. Tweedy, on July 3rd, 1890. She stated that she had always been very near-sighted, but had never worn glasses. A year previously she had had an attack of inflammation in her right eye, after which it became quite blind; she had never had any in- jury to it. On examination there was found to be some ciliary injection of the right; the anterior chamber in it was shallow. The iris was dull and discoloured, its pupillary border was bound down to the lens capsule, and its peripheral portions bowed forwards ; the pupil was closed by an inflammatory membrane; the tension of the eye was — 1, and she was unable with it to distinguish light from dark. Her left eye was highly myopic, vision without glasses being = -^^q only. Ophthalmoscopically extensive choi'oidal changes were seen about the posterior pole. The day following her admission her right eye was excised. On opening the freshly removed eye by an equatorial section, the retina was found to be completely detached from the ora serrata up to the optic disc. Attached to the outer surface of the reti»a were some shreds