@article{589b3bbeeb6b4d3e8a2678f86cf5cb35,
title = "Hyaline bodies (drusen) of the optic nerve",
abstract = "Bedside fundus photography is a valuable tool which has been made possible with the Noyori hand fundus camera. This is exemplified in the present study of a child with a terminal disease whose eyegrounds revealed hyaline bodies of the optic nerve head. A correlation has been made between the in vivo findings and the gross and histologic pathology.",
author = "Pollack, {Irvin P.} and Bernard Becker",
note = "Funding Information: Physical examination. On admission the blood pressure was 150/100 mm. Hg., and the pulse was 88. There was 2-f-hard pitting edema of the feet and pretibial areas. The external eye examination was essentially normal. The pupils were normal and reacted well. Funduscopic examination revealed that the disc was elevated about 4.0D. with a blurred margin and an appearance suggesting papilledema (fig. 1). Two white, round, well-demarcated hyaline bodies were seen in the inferonasal quadrant of the nerve head of the right eye, while a third, similar but less distinct one was seen at the 12-o'clock •From the Department of Ophthalmology and the Oscar Johnson Institute, Washington University School of Medicine. This investigation was supported in part by a research grant, B-1789, from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness of the National Institute of Health, Public Health Service, Bethesda, Maryland. t Present address : The Wilmer Institute, Baltimore 5, Maryland.",
year = "1962",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/0002-9394(62)92196-7",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "54",
pages = "651--654",
journal = "American journal of ophthalmology",
issn = "0002-9394",
publisher = "Elsevier USA",
number = "4",
}