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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    Of the remaining 52 cases, 6 are known to be still alive, but none of these having reached the three-year limit they are not included in the above list. One (No. 55) is a case of double excision, and, up to the present time, 2^- years have elapsed since the removal of the second eye. The other 5 are cases in which the disease was uniocuJar; in No. 50, 1 year and 5 months have elapsed since the eye was excised; in No. 56, 1 year and 10 months; in No. 57, 2 years and 4 months; in No. 59, 9 months; in No. 60, 9 months (the fellow eye is, however, affected in this case). In the literature of the subject we have found records of altogether 25 cases of permanent recoveries, using this term in the sense denned above. They are briefly as follows :— Beudenell Carter. 1 case, 9 years. Hirschberg. 1 case, 12^ years. Fodchard. 1 case, 16^ years. There was no microscopic examination of the specimen. Nellessen. 1 case, 4^ years. In this case a recurrent growth in the orbit was removed, and the pontents of the orbit cleared out. The patient was alive and well 4j years after the second operation. Knapp. 1 case, 14 years. ,, 1 „ 6 „ after exenteration of orbit. Landsberg. 1 case, 16 years. »j * » «* >> Agnew. 1 case of double enucleation, 14 years. Briere. 1 case, 4 years. Lawson. 1 case, 8 years. 1 7 Vetsch. 1 case, 9 years. 1 7 Theobalu. 1 case, 9£ years. No microscopical examination. Snell. 1 caso, 12 years.* * Reported in Brit. Med. Jour., 1884, ii, 1194. Mr. Snell bas informed us that the patient is now (August, 1890) alive and well.