Infections of the Upper Respiratory Tract in the Etiology of Uveitis

Abstract

This article is a brief excerpt from an exhaustive discussion of the subject which will be printed in full in the Transactions of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology for 1931. The subject matter is based on a wide knowledge of the literature and on the author's experience with 255 cases with eye involvement. Many cases with proven tuberculosis or syphilis improved only after surgical treatment of sinus conditions. Others had had inadequate operations on the sinuses. Sinusitis is never strictly confined to a single sinus. Chronic sinusitis of long standng may not be curable by operation alone. Read before the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, at Philadelphia, June 9, 1931. This article is a brief excerpt from an exhaustive discussion of the subject which will be printed in full in the Transactions of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology for 1931. The subject matter is based on a wide knowledge of the literature and on the author's experience with 255 cases with eye involvement. Many cases with proven tuberculosis or syphilis improved only after surgical treatment of sinus conditions. Others had had inadequate operations on the sinuses. Sinusitis is never strictly confined to a single sinus. Chronic sinusitis of long standng may not be curable by operation alone. Read before the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, at Philadelphia, June 9, 1931.