EFFECT OF GRENZ RAYS ON LEPROUS INFILTRATIONS
- 1 July 1947
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 38 (1) , 78-88
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1947.00900010081005
Abstract
INVOLVEMENT of the eye is one of the most serious complications of leprosy. Opinions differ as to the frequency of occurrence of such involvement. Rogers and Muir1found involvement of the eye in 5 to 10 per cent of their patients with lepromatous leprosy. De Silva,2as well as Neve,3stated that the percentage for this complication was 20 to 25. Chance,4in Norway, found ocular involvement in 90 per cent of patients who had lepromatous leprosy and in 75 per cent of patients who had the neural type of leprosy. Borthen5reported involvement of the eye in 91.92 per cent of women who had the tuberculous and neural types of leprosy and in 98.33 per cent of men who had these forms of leprosy. Duke-Elder,6citing data given by various authors, pointed out that ocular involvement is likely to occur at any timeKeywords
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