Hereditary sex-linked retinoschisis.

Hereditary sex-linked retinoschisis.

The management of retinoschisis still presents a complex clinical problem, and a survey of the current literature suggests that opinion remains divided regarding the most suitable form of treatment. It has been suggested that the results of surgery are poor and that operative treatment should be undertaken only with reluctance (Balian and Falls, I960; Shea, Schepens, and von Pirquet, I960; Duke...

X-linked Hereditary Retinoschisis.

AN X-linked degenerative retino-choroidal disease, hereditary retinoschisis, has been identified in the last 10 years. In milder cases the disease takes the form of radial macular degeneration, but in severe cases a grey sheet-like veil is attached to the detachment in the retinal vasculature, especially in the lower temporal quadrant. In differential diagnosis, according to Ricci (1960), a dom...

Sex - Linked Hereditary Bilateral Anophthalmos

rprue anophthalmos is a rare clinical *entity, and the diagnosis can only be made by histologie examination of the orbital contents. Cases with pathologic substantiation of both the intraorbital and the intracranial com¬ ponents of the visual system are still rare.13 We present herein the radiologic and postmortem follow-up in a case of an X-linked recessive form of anophthalmos originally repo...

Juvenile sex-linked recessive retinoschisis in a black family.

In 1932, Thomson described an unusual neuroretinal disorder occurring in four male members of an English family. This descrip­ tion is probably the first report in the En­ glish literature of the retinopathy known to­ day as juvenile sex-linked retinoschisis. The descriptive title of "congenital vascular veils in the vitreous" was given to this disorder by Mann and MacRae and subsequently adopt...

X linked retinoschisis.