Two cases of glioma of the retina / by G. E. de Schweinitz and E. A. Shumway.

  • De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938.
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[1899]
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    (/£} Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, 1900.] TWO CASES OF GLIOMA OF THE RETINA. G. E. de SCHWEINITZ, M.D., AND E. A. SHUMWAY, M.D. As a certain amount of interest always attaches itself to glioma, the following cases are deemed worthy of record: Case I.—L. E., a male Hebrew child, aged three and a half years, was brought to one of us (Dr. de Schweinitz) on the 29th of June, 1900, for an opinion on the left eye, which was blind, painful, and prominent. History. There was nothing important in the clinical history of the child, who is the only one, and who had been in sturdy health until recently, when great restlessness developed, particu- larly at night, doubtless due to pain in the affected eye. The right eye was normal in all respects, as far as could be ascertained by ophthalmoscopic examination. Eight months prior to his visit, that is to say, when the child was not yet three years old, a white spot appeared in the pupil of the left eye, and the child was taken to several of the hospitals of this city, but failed to follow the advice there given. Within the last few months the eyeball became distended and masses began to appear in the orbit. Examination showed a greatly enlarged eyeball, a wide pupil, behind which all interior examination was obscured by the catar- actous lens. The episcleral and posterior conjunctival vessels were enormously enlarged and distended. The tension of the eyeball was 4- 3. Below and to the outer side, and apparently adherent to the floor of the orbit, were several large episcleral nodules. The diagnosis of intraocular growth, almost certainly glioma, in the stage of extraocular tumor formation, was readily made, and evisceration of the contents of the orbit was advised. This operation was performed on the 2d of July at the Jefferson College Hospital, the entire contents of the orbit with the perios- teum being removed in a single mass.