CYST IN THE VITREOUS
- 1 May 1933
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 9 (5) , 825-827
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1933.00830010848009
Abstract
Cysts in the vitreous are very rare. I have been able to find only seven cases reported in the literature to date. However, it may be possible that cysts in the vitreous are not quite as uncommon as one thinks they are, as they may be easily overlooked. The patient may have no subjective symptoms whatever and may never get to the ophthalmologist, or he may come only for a refraction, and the refractionist easily fail to see the cyst. In the present case the patient was seen and his refraction tested three different times by capable men, and each time the cyst was overlooked. REPORT OF A CASE A girl, aged 13 years, came to me on July 9, 1931, complaining that the glasses she had gotten two and one-half years before were no longer satisfactory. She had occasional frontal headaches, but no other symptoms. On cursory examination ofKeywords
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