Sarcoma of the uveal tract : with notes of one hundred and three cases / by J. B. Lawford and E. Treacher Collins.

  • Lawford, J. B., active 1886.
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: Sarcoma of the uveal tract : with notes of one hundred and three cases / by J. B. Lawford and E. Treacher Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reciuTent growth cappeared within the first twelve months after removal of the primary tumour, and according to this author the danger of local recurrence is greatest in the first half year after excision of the eyeball. He gives one case (taken from Sichel) in which nine years elapsed between the removal of the primary growth and the recm-rence. Freudenthal records in his 24 cases, 25 per cent, of local recurrences. The longest interval was ten years; in half of the total number the return of the tumour occurred in the six months following the primary operation. History of previous Disease or Injury of the Eye. In 6 cases (Nos. 6, 8, 15, 62, 63, 83) the tumour occurred in eyes blind from other causes, and often shi-unken. In No. 63 the eye had been bhnd for 18 years; in No. 83, for 16 years; in No. 6, for 13 years; in No. 8^ for 12 years; in No. 62, for 7 years ; and in No. 15 for 4 years. In Nos. 62 and *)3 the eye had been hable to frequent recurrent inflammatory attacks. In 5 cases (Nos. 10, 23, 67, 71, 84) a history of injury to the eye was obtained. In Case 10 a perforating wound was inflicted with a sharp stick eighteen months before the eye was removed The wound was in the ciliary region and the tumour gi'ew at_ the site of the scar. In the remaining 4 cases the mjury was not a perforating wound; in Case 23 it occurred 10 months; in Case 67, 7 months; in Case 71, ]2 months- and m Case 84, 3 years, before the eye was removed If we add to these, Nos. 8 and 83, in which the eye was shininken, but had been wounded, we have a total of 7 cases, 6-79 per cenl., with a definite history of injury