History of a case of removal of a retrobulbar lymphosarcoma with preservation of normal vision / by Charles A. Oliver.

  • Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1853-1911.
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[1900]
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Credit: History of a case of removal of a retrobulbar lymphosarcoma with preservation of normal vision / by Charles A. Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    engorgement of the retinal and conjunctival veins. In fact, most, if not all, of the pressure-symptoms of a retrobulbar growth. The tumor successfully extirpated without injury to the eyeball or its functioning power, merely giv- ing rise to temporary disturbance of the contiguous muscular structures, serves to illustrate the average results of ophthalmic surgery of today. The findings of the microscope, which necessarily are indeterminate as to such growths being truly sar- comatous or lymphomatous in character, taken into consideration with the multilobular nature of the mass, distinctly point to its being a lymphosarcoma. The lapse of time since the removal of the growth without the least signs of any local or metastatic expres- sion of the former disease, although, of course, of too brief a period for any certainty of conclusion, is of much importance in showing that the growth was not malignant in character, while the return of the organ to its original healthy condition is a result which must be considered as most fortuitous.