Four cases of bilateral glioma of the retina cured by enucleation of the two eyes / by E. Treacher Collins.

  • Collins, E. Treacher (Edward Treacher), 1862-1937.
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[1896]
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Credit: Four cases of bilateral glioma of the retina cured by enucleation of the two eyes / by E. Treacher Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Seprinted from Vol, XVIof the ' Ophthalmological Society's Transactions.''] Four cases of bilateral glioma of the retina cured hy enucleation of the two eyes. By E. Treacher Collins. In the first part of volume xiii of the Eoyal London Ophthalmic Hospital ' Eeports/' Mr. Lawford and I pub- lished a paper on Glioma of the Eetina/^ in which we endeavoured to fix the time which must elapse after the removal of an eye with glioma of the retina, before a patient can be definitely said to be free from fear of recurrence of the growth. For this purpose we traced the after-history of a large number of patients who had been operated on for this disease, and searched the records of all the published cases we could find. As the result of these inquiries we found that no well authenticated case had been reported in which there had been a recurrence later than three years after the removal of an eye for glioma of the retina, and that three years may be considered as quite an outside limit. Vetsch recorded a case in which after removal of the eye a secondary growth occurred in the parotid gland three years later, which wa^s decided by microscopical examina- tion to be gliomatous. His, however, appears to be an unique case, the usual interval between the operation upon the primary, and the appearance of the secondary growth is much shorter. The longest period of quiescence in the cases we traced was nine months. I will now briefly relate the history of four cases in which both eyes were excised for glioma of the retina,