Notes on glioma retinae : with a report of 60 cases / by J. B. Lawford and E. Treacher Collins.

  • Lawford, J. B., active 1886.
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[1896]
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Credit: Notes on glioma retinae : with a report of 60 cases / by J. B. Lawford and E. Treacher Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    our cases roughly, we obtaiu the following results: the disease was first noticed by the parents:— Within three months of birth, in 9 cases; of these it was noticed at birth in 5 cases, during the first five weeks of life in 2 cases. Between 3 and 6 months, 4 cases. » 6 „ 12 „ 9 „ During 2nd year, 13 cases. „ 3rd „ 7 „ „ 4th „ 3 „ „ 5th „ 4 „ „ 6th „ 4 „ >, 7th „ 1 „ Age uncertain 6 „ From these figures it appears that the growth begins, or more correctly becomes evident, with greatest fre- quency during the first two years of life. There is no doubt that glioma of the retina is, in some cases, present at birth. Hirschberg out of 77 cases gives 6 as congenital. Vetsch out of 22 cases gives 3 as congenital. In our oldest case, disease was first noticed during the 7th year. Hirschberg reports 4 cases at an older age, viz., 1 at 9 years, 2 at 10 years, and 1 at 11 years. Vetsch gives 1 at 8 years; Lukowicz gives 1 at 9 years of age. Recoveries.—We have considered as permanent re- coveries only those cases in which we have obtained reliable information that the patient was alive and well, and that no recurrence of the disease had occurred, three years after the removal of the eye or eyes. Our reason for fixing three years as a limit is that one case has been re- corded by Vetsch, in which three years after the removal of the eye a secondary growth occurred in the parotid gland, which was decided by microscopic examination to be gliomatous. We must add, however, that this is a unique case, and that the usual interval between the