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Previous Volume 338:313-319 January 29, 1998 Number 5 Next

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Presentation of Case

A 32-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of unilateral vitreous hemorrhage and mediastinal lymphadenopathy.

The patient had been well until 7 1/2 weeks earlier, when he experienced the gradual onset of blurred vision in the left eye, accompanied by numerous floaters, but without flashes, quadratic visual-field loss, or pain. An evaluation elsewhere showed vitreous hemorrhage with proliferative disease. A fluorescein angiographic examination showed vitreous hemorrhage, an elevated, intensely hyperfluorescent fibrovascular frond, and smaller areas of neovascularization that did not involve the optic disk. Panretinal photocoagulation was administered twice during a six-day period, and the patient's vision slowly improved. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnoses

Dr. Michael B. Raizman's Diagnoses

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnoses

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