Abstract

The case to be reported belongs to a group that was originally described by Jensen 1 in 1908, and diagnosed by him as retinochoroiditis juxtapapillaris. Since then more than thirty cases have been reported in the literature ; no doubt many more have been observed. The striking transitional character of the retinal lesion and the light it throws on the etiology of the disease make the case both interesting and instructive. REPORT OF A CASE History .—A girl, aged 17, apparently well developed, came to the Herman Knapp Memorial Eye Hospital on Aug. 15, 1932, complaining of blurred vision in the left eye over a period of two weeks. About the last week in July she had suffered from a cold in the head and at the same time had noted a dull ache in the left eye on motion. On the following day the ache disappeared, and the patient noted

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