The Clinical Significance of Choroidal Tubercles
Authors: R. T. Paton
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1932)

Article1 February 1932The Clinical Significance of Choroidal TuberclesR. T. PATON, M.D.R. T. PATON, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-5-8-997 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptBeginning about four years after the discovery of the ophthalmoscope we find descriptions of choroidal tubercles in the medical literature. Among the investigators who are associated with these early observations are Jaeger, Von Graefe, Leber, Manz, Bouchert, Gerlach, Fraenkel, and Horner. These descriptions included the two types commonly known as (1) the granuloma or solitary tubercle, (2) choroidal miliary tubercles. The former is usually associated with chronic tuberculosis, and the latter with acute miliary tuberculosis. These observations have been substantiated by later investigators.Studies of pathological material have shown that the usual number of tubercles in one eye is three...Bibliography JAEGER E: Über Choroidealtuberkel, Oesterr. Ztschr. f. Prakt. Heilk., 1855, Jahrgang, i, 9-10. Google Scholar VON GRAEFELEBER AT: Über Aderhauttuberkeln, Arch. f. Ophth., 1868, xiv, 183-206. Google Scholar MANZ W: Tuberculose der Choroidea, Arch. f. Ophth., 1858, iv, Part ii, 120-126. Google Scholar BOUCHUT M: Des tubercles de la choroide et de la retine pouvant servir au diagnostic de la tuberculose cérébrale, Gaz. des Hôp., 1869, ii. Google Scholar FRÄNKEL B: Weitere Beobachtungen von Aderhauttuberkeln, Berl. klin. Wchnschr., 1869, vi, 37-39. Google Scholar HAAB O: Die Choroiditis tuberculosa chronica, Arch. f. Ophth., 1879, xxv, 221-236. Google Scholar PARSONS JH: Diseases of the eye, 1930, Macmillan Company, New York, 539. Google Scholar COHNHEIM J: Über Tuberculose der Choroidea, Virchows Arch. f. path, Anat., 1867, xxxix, 49-69. CrossrefGoogle Scholar GROENOUW A: Beziehungen der Allgemeinenleiden und Organerkrankungen zu Veränderungen und Krankheiten des Sehorganes, Handbuch der Augenheilkunde, 1920, Dritte Auflage, 1074-1087. Google Scholar CARPENTERSTEPHENSON GS: A case of tubercle of the choroid presenting certain clinical and pathological peculiarities, Ophthalmoscope, 1905, iii, 374-380. Google Scholar MARPLE WB: Tubercle of the choroid in tuberculous meningitis, Ophthalmoscope, 1912, x, 559-563. Google Scholar BREDECK JK: The choroidal tubercle in tuberculous meningitis, Am. Jr. Ophth., 1916, xxxiii, 1-8. Google Scholar LOTIN A: Über die tuberkulose disseminierte Choroiditis und über die Miliartuberkeln der Aderhaut, Klin. Monatsbl. f. Augenh. 1925, lxxiv, 262. Google Scholar WEIS L: Über die Tuberkulose des Auges, Arch. f. Ophth., 1877, xxiii, 57-158. Google Scholar TOOKE F: Tuberculous meningitis with special reference to the tubercle of the choroid and its pathological manifestations, Tr. Am. Ophth. Soc., 1915-16, xiv, 218-232. Google Scholar BOLLACKHILLEMANDLAPORTE JPA: Tuberculose miliaire de la choroide, Annales d'Oculistique, 1927, clxiv, 660. Google Scholar VAN DER HOEVE J: Examen du fond de l'oeil dans la tuberculose miliaire, Bull. Soc. de pédiat. de Paris, 1925, xxii, 511-514. Google Scholar JESSOP WH: A discussion of intraocular tuberculosis, Brit. Med. Jr., Sect. Ophth., 1925, ii, 430-433. Google Scholar RANDOLPHSCHMEISSER RTHC: A clinical and pathological study of two cases of miliary tubercles of the choroid, Tr Am. Ophth., 1915-16, xiv, 585-592. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: R. T. PATON, M.D.Affiliations: Baltimore, Md.*From The Fifteenth Annual Clinical Session at The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, Baltimore, Md., March 26, 1931. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byLarge exudative retinal detachment with choroidal granuloma unmasking disseminated tuberculosis: imaging and managementOcular TuberculosisMassive choroidal granuloma as the presenting feature of disseminated tuberculosis in immunocompetent patientsOcular TuberculosisOcular TuberculosisOcular TuberculosisOcular TuberculosisClinicopathological Correlation of a Solitary Choroidal TuberculomaTuberculoma of the ChoroidChoroidal Tubercles A Clue to Hematogenous TuberculosisDONALD MASSARO, M.D., SOL KATZ, M.D., MURRAY SACHS, M.D. 1 February 1932Volume 5, Issue 8 Page: 997-999 Keywords Granulomas Miliary tuberculosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 February 1932 PDF downloadLoading ...