CAVERNOUS DEGENERATION, NECROSIS AND OTHER REGRESSIVE PROCESSES IN OPTIC NERVE WITH VASCULAR DISEASE OF EYE
- 1 September 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 34 (3) , 220-226
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1945.00890190220008
Abstract
Schnabel discovered cavernous degeneration in the tissue of the optic nerve in glaucomatous eyes. He1and his pupil Elschnig2declared that the condition was peculiar to glaucoma. Other investigators, like Axenfeld and Stock,3found cavernous changes in the nerve in cases of high myopia. Koyanagi and Takahashi4and other authors observed the condition in eyes excised for intraorbital tumor. Lagrange and Beauvieux5demonstrated pronounced vascular changes in glaucomatous eyes which showed cavernous degeneration of the nerve. In several cases of primary glaucoma they discovered sclerosis and obliteration of the laminar and retrolaminar vascular twigs in the optic nerve. It is interesting that they correlated cavernous degeneration of the optic nerve with similar features described in brain tissue in association with vascular disease, called by Pierre Marieétat lacunaireand by C. and O. Vogtétat criblé. It is likewise interesting that Duke-Elder6stated thatKeywords
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