ISOLATED FOCI OF CALCIFICATION IN THE SCLERA

1 May 1932

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)

Vol. 7 (5) , 757-762
https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1932.00820120109007

Abstract

There are but few reports in the literature of localized calcareous degeneration of the sclera. The earliest of these was referred to by Pagenstecher¹as having appeared in theBlasii obs. med. ra Amstel. of 1677, concerning a case of circumscribed "ossification" of the sclera, which he believes to have been only a calcification, since osteoid transformation of the connective tissue does not seem to develop in the sclera. In 1860, Pagenstecher¹himself reported a case of isolated calcification of the sclera, anterior to the insertion of a lateral rectus, in an atrophic eye. After extraction of the lime salts, the scleral fibers in the affected region were of normal appearance. Katz²was the first to point out the possibility of a primary localized necrosis of the sclera and a secondary deposition of calcium salts, as in his case the scleral fibers, after extraction of

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