Abstract
SINCE slightly more than 100 cases of infection with Cryptococcus neoformans (Torula histolytica; Cryptococcus hominis) have been reported in the literature up to the present time, the disease should no longer be considered rare. The clinical, histopathologic and mycologic features have been adequately reviewed by Stoddard and Cutler, 1 Freeman, 2 Binford, 3 Dodge, 4 Benham 5 and Cox and Tolhurst. 6 Although a variety of ocular complications, including photophobia, diplopia, ptosis, rigidity of the pupils, amblyopia, strabismus, aniseikonia, nystagmus, neuroretinitis, papilledema, retinal hemorrhages, primary optic nerve atrophy and ophthalmoplegia, have been observed with a fair degree of regularity in this disease (Bettin 7 ; Freeman 2a ; Holt 8 ; Marshall and Teed 9 ; Watts 10 ; Reeves, Butt and Hammack 11 ; Wade and Stevenson, 12 and others), few ophthalmologists have had the opportunity to make the diagnosis 13 ; and only one communication dealing with an orbital infection due to C. neoformans has
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