TY  - JOUR
T1  - EYe lesions in patients with positive wassermann reactions
AU  - RODIN FH, CARSON JG
Y1  - 1929/08/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02710050014005
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 360
EP  - 361
VL  - 93
IS  - 5
N2  - Eye lesions are frequently found in patients who have syphilis. A great deal has been written on the various aspects of the eye in syphilis. A review of the literature failed to show any study of the frequency of eye lesions in a given number of patients who had a positive Wassermann reaction.This study was undertaken to find the type of eye conditions and the frequency with which they occur in a consecutive number of patients with positive Wassermann reactions. One thousand consecutive patients with positive Wassermann reactions were studied at the Stanford University medical clinics. Of this group, 286, or 28.6 per cent, were seen at the eye clinic. One hundred, or 10 per cent, had eye lesions which were considered to be of syphilitic origin. This is 34.9 per cent of the patients examined at the eye clinic. Fifty-one patients who had positive eye symptoms came to
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02710050014005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710050014005
ER  -