PEDIATRICS Vol. 3 No. 6 June 1949, pp. 824-828
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RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA AND LIGHT

W. R. HEPNER M.D.1, ARLINGTON C. KRAUSE M.D.2, and M. EDWARD DAVIS M.D.3

1 The Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
2 The Department of Surgery (Ophthalmology) The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
3 The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

To discover whether exposure of the eye to light played any role in the pathogenesis of retrolental fibroplasia, the eyes of five premature infants were shielded for from 35 to 60 days after birth. Four of these five infants developed retrolental fibroplasia. One of the five infants developed no ocular abnormality of any kind. It is concluded that light is not an etiologic factor of retrolental fibroplasia in the premature infant.

Submitted on August 23, 1948




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