Notes on glioma retinae : with a report of 60 cases / by J. B. Lawford and E. Treacher Collins.

  • Lawford, J. B., active 1886.
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[1896]
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    of the subject in reference to several questions of import- ance, and the information thus obtained is embodied in our remarks, and the results compared with our own. We may here state that we have made every effort to exclude cases in which there appeared to be reasonable doubt that the diagnosis of glioma was correct; such Avere cases in which no microscopic examination of the growth had been recorded, or in which the reports were too scanty to be reliable. Se.v.—Of the 60 cases, 30 were males, 27 females, and in 3 the sex was not given. These figures show a slight preponderance of males. In previously published tables the numbers were : Hirschberg, 77 cases, 37 males, 24 females, 16 undetermined; Vetsch, 22 cases, equally divided between the sexes; Lukowicz, 27 cases, 11 males, 15 females, 1 undetermined; Knapp, 7 cases, 6 males, 1 female. Adding these figures, we get, of 193 cases, 95 males, 78 females, and 20 undetermined. Eye affected.—Of our 60 cases, the growth occurred simultaneously, or with short interval, in both eyes in 12 (Nos. 6, 9, 10, 19, 21, 26, 34, 35, 36, 46, 55, 60); in 4 others (Nos. 8, 17, 20, 51) there is decided probability that the disease attacked both eyes; and in one (No. 58) the affection of the second eye may have been glioma. Of those in which the disease was unilateral, the right eye was affected in 16 cases, the left in 27 cases, and hi one it was not stated. Of 60 of Hirschberg's cases, in 14 both eyes were affected; in 25 the right, and in 21 the left, eye was the seat of the new growth. Vetsch records 22 cases, in one of which the disease was bilateral; in 11 the right eye and in 10 the left eye was affected. Age of Patients.—There is generally considerable difficulty in obtaining an accurate statement from the parents, as to the date at which attention was directed to the child's eye. The figures which are given in the tables can only be taken as approximately correct. Classifying b 2