1930
Cystic Degeneration of the Retina
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“…Rheumatoid scleritis provides disturbing indications of deepseated inflammation, posterior segment abnormality affecting nearly one-third of the patients (Table XIIIa). Although macular disturbance could have other causes, such as drug-induced maculopathy, senile degeneration (Bedell, 1950;Favre, I960) and vascular disease (Norn,I96I) it is recognized that it may occur with retinitis (Manschot and Von Winning, I953) or iridocyclitis (Samuels, 1930; Wolff, I93I). It is possible, therefore, that the large number of rheumatoid patients with a macular disturbance may be attributed, in part at least, to the consequence of severe scleritis, the incidence being higher than in the non-rheumatoid patients with scleritis, both groups having a mean age in the sixth decade.…”
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