Case of sarcoma of the choroid : characterised by its long duration and by the unusually small size of the primary growth / by A. Maitland Ramsay.

  • Ramsay, A. Maitland (Andrew Maitland), 1859-1946.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Case of sarcoma of the choroid : characterised by its long duration and by the unusually small size of the primary growth / by A. Maitland Ramsay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    evident outside the eyeball; but it made no marked progress for nearly four years thereafter. Knapp (Intra-omlar Tumours, p. 249) saysThe duration of hfe cannot be considered to be extended for more than one to two years when the surroundings of the eyeball are once attacked. Third. The comparatively insignificant size of the primary tumour in the choroid in this case, as con- trasted with the mass of secondary growth which occupied the orbit, emphasises the necessity for minute examination of the choroid in cases of orbital sarcoma, where at first sight a primary choroidal growth appears to be absent (Plate 2, Fig. 1 c).