Three cases of intraocular tumor / by W. F. Norris.

  • Norris, W. F. (William Felix), -1925.
Date:
1874
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    II. Sarcoma of the choroid. E. O'C—, aged 60 years, presented herself at the clinic of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, April 1st, 1872, with a tumor of the right eye the size of a small hen's-egg. It was everywhere covered by conjunctiva, hard and nodu- lated. Some years previously an opera- tion for staphyloma had been performed on the eye, and a section of the growth proved that it had its origin in the cica- trix of the shrunken ball. Microscopic examination showed a net-work of very small spindle cells closely felted together, and consequent- ly a comparatively favorable prognosis was made. It was enucleated April 4th, 1872, and up to the present date there has been no recurrence.* Equatorial section of shrunken ball and of the tumor. Section of above, magnified two hundred and fifty diameters. III.. Sarcoma of the choroid. J. H—, aged 25 years, a healthy-looking farmer, presented himself at the Wills Hospital with a hard lobulated tumor growing from the right eye and pushing the cornea upwards and outwards. The lids can still be closed over it; but it has grown much lately,, and causes severe hemicrania. * Patient now, March 20tb, 1874, in good health, and no symptom of reourronoe.