A report of leprosy lesions of the fundus.

Ophthalmoscopic evidence of leprous lesions of the fundus was recently seen in a case of lepromatous leprosy of fifteen years duration. These lesions are truly leprous, we believe, for they are identical in contour, color and waxy refractile characteristics with those seen on the iris with the slit lamp, and which have been proven by our routine microscopic sections to contain typical lepra cells, Hansen's bacilli and the round cell infiltration of a true leproma. In this patient these common lepromata of the iris were present in each eye at the time of the reported difficulty with vision of the left eye; the retinal lesions were observed in the left eye only.