Gumma orbits

Abstract

In the pathology of the organ of vision, syphilis plays a prominent role; it accounts for one to three percent of all eye diseases. Orbital syphilis, however, is rare. According to the Kazan Eye Clinic, from 1900 to 1922, there were only two cases of gummy lesions of the orbit among 129.340 patients. Professor Ochapovsky among. 29,970 patients in his clinic notes seven cases of this kind of patients. According to the statistics of our department, from 1919 to 1935, for 225,000 patients, two cases were registered in 1925 (West Soviet Medical, 1925) and the case below is the third.

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