Transactions . rse of the disease, as shown byother cases, the process of organization is completed andcicatricial contraction sets in, crumbhng up the retina andcausing further detachment. The hemorrhage breaks downcompletely and may be totally absorbed; more usually,however, a small cavity remains among the cicatricialtissue, filled with debris, cholesterin crystals and calcareousparticles. The disease is now obsolescent, except whenvascular disease is present, and gives rise to new hemor-rhages. There is another form of disease, also with massiveexudation in the retina, which is characteriz
Transactions . rse of the disease, as shown byother cases, the process of organization is completed andcicatricial contraction sets in, crumbhng up the retina andcausing further detachment. The hemorrhage breaks downcompletely and may be totally absorbed; more usually,however, a small cavity remains among the cicatricialtissue, filled with debris, cholesterin crystals and calcareousparticles. The disease is now obsolescent, except whenvascular disease is present, and gives rise to new hemor-rhages. There is another form of disease, also with massiveexudation in the retina, which is characterized by the forma-tion of arteriovenous communications, with enormousenlargement of the affected vessels. In the youth of thepatients attacked, in the absence of an evident etiology, andin its general course and termination, it has many points ofresemblance to the cases already mentioned, and possiblyit is allied. But the few pathological examinations whichhave been carried out do not altogether support this, but. Fig. 2.—Case 1. Showing diffuse infiltraiion of retina.
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