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Title: Atlas and epitome of ophthalmoscopy and ophthalmoscopic diagnosis
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Haab, O. (Otto), b. 1850 De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938
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Publisher: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 57. Fig. 57. Old Injury of the Retina by an Iron Splinter.— In the two cases shown in the foregoing figure, the foreignbodies had been only a short time in the retina and eitherlay apparent on the surface or were embedded within themembrane; the present figure shows two cases in which thesplinters had penetrated the eye some time before and nowpresent a somewhat diflTerent picture. The foreign bodies arehere covered by a whitish exudate, the black color of themetal showing only in two places in a. In the latter thesplinter, which had been almost two months in the retina,produced a characteristic alteration in the immediate neigh-borhood. The pigment-epithelium has in part disappearedand the splinter is surrounded by a light colored areola inwhich a few choroidal vessels are seen. This areola alsoshows an irregular pigmentation, which becomes more intensenear the foreign body. In the adjacent region there are threesmall choroiditic foci, light in color, with ill-defined edges,an

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