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Dalén-Fuchs nodules
Also known as:
Dalén's foci (Danish)
Dalén-Fuchs spots
Associated persons:
Johan Albin Dalén
Ernst Fuchs
Description:
Nodules - pigmented areas - made up of epithelial cells lying between Bruch's membrane and the retinal pigment epithelium. They are seen in sympathetic ophthalmia, rarely in other granulomatous intraocular inflammations.
Bibliography:
- J. A. Dalén:
Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten Choroiditis sympathetica.
Mitteilungen aus der Augenklinik des Carolinischen medico-chirurgischen Instituts zu Stockholm, Jena, 1904, 6: 1-21.
- E Fuchs:
Über sympathisierende Entzündung (nebst Bemerkungen über seröse traumatische Iritis).
Albrecht von Grćfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, 1905, 61: 365-456.
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