OPHTHALMOLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF FAVISM

Ophthalmological Complications of Favism.

To the Editorial Committee of the BRMSH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY SIRs,-I read with interest the article of Choremis, Joannides, and Kyriakides on " Severe Ophthalmological Complications following Favism" (Brit. J. Ophthal. (1960) 44, 353). Since the authors state that "such complications were encountered for the first time and no information was found in the literature", I should like to refer ...

Ophthalmological complications of multiple myelomatosis.

The Ophthalmological Complications of Leontiasis Ossea.

Journal (Sorsby, 1939). The fundi in two brothers whose eye trouble dated back to the early twenties showed a sharplycircumscribed central area in which the choroidal vessels were sclerosed. It is suggested that these cases of choroidal sclerosis are allied to macular coloboma-coloboma on the one hand and " senile " macular degeneration due to choroidal sclerosis on the other, representing the ...

Neuro-ophthalmological complications of enlargement of the third ventricle.

A wide variety of visual sensory and ocular motor problems may occur as a direct result of enlargement of the third ventricle. Four patients are described with optic nerve dysfunction, partial third nerve palsy, proptosis, and Sylvian aqueduct syndrome all resulting from an enlarged third ventricle. The pathogenetic mechanisms are discussed.

Favism.