Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T22:59:20.777Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Observations Upon Abnormalities of the Pupils and Iris in Tabes Dorsalis, General Paralysis and Tabo-Paresis: With a Consideration of [Their Bearing Upon the Pathogenesis of the Argyll Robertson Pupil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. M. McGrath*
Affiliation:
Cane Hill Mental Hospital

Extract

The tell-tale facies of the subject of long-standing tabes is familiar to all clinical observers, and is the sum of several components. The pallor and thinness of the face are, in all probability, largely related to the impaired state of the patient's nutrition, and this in turn is often an expression of chronic infection of the urinary tract. The remaining components, namely, the ptosis, the pupillary anomalies and the equally constant changes in the appearance of the iris, are of neurogenic origin.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1932 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Adie, W. J., Brit. Med. Journ., 1931, ii, p. 136.Google Scholar
2 Robertson, Argyll, Edin. Med. Journ., 1869, xv, p. 487.Google Scholar
3 Behr, C., Arch. f. Ophthal., 1913, cccclxv, p. 86.Google Scholar
4 Dupuy-Dutemps, , Ann. d'Oculistique, 1905, cxxxiii-iv, p. 190.Google Scholar
5 Marina, A., Riv. di Patol. nerv. e ment., 1898, iii, p. 529.Google Scholar
6 Idem, Deutsch. Zeitschr. f. Nervenheilk., 1901, xx, p. 369.Google Scholar
7 Idem, Presse Méd., 1910, p. 51.Google Scholar
8 Piltz, , Neurol. Centralbl., 1903, xxii, p. 662.Google Scholar
9 Thomas, A., Nouvelle Icon. de la Salpétrière, 1910, xxiii, p. 562.Google Scholar
10 Idem, Rev. Neurol., 1910, xviii, p. 41.Google Scholar
11 Wilson, S. A. K., Modern Problems in Neurology, Arnold, London, 1928, p. 332.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.