DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Colloid degeneration
Robert Walter Doyne
Robert Walter Doyne (1857-1916) was a British ophthalmologist. He studied medicine in Oxford, Bristol and St. George's Hospital in London. In 1886 he founded the Oxford Eye Hospital, and in 1909 became the first president of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. In 1899 Doyne discovered colloid bodies lying on Bruch's membrane that appeared to merge together forming a mosaic pattern that resembled a honeycomb. Afterwards this disorder was referred to as Doyne's honeycomb choroiditis. Today this condition is known to be a rare hereditary form of macular degeneration which results in progressive and irreversible loss of vision, and goes by several names such as macular drusen, malattia leventinese, dominant radial drusen and Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy...
Colloid degeneration - List of case studies
- Degenerative eye problems - Bilateral colloid degeneration
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69-year-old female with a diagnosis of Bilateral Colloid Degeneration. Her past Ophthalmological history began about 6 to 8 months ago ...
- List of Diseases and Conditions
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on cardiac and pulmonary function Age Related Macular Degeneration Age Related macular degeneration of the wet type Age ... Bilateral chronic otomastoiditis Bilateral colloid degeneration Bilateral constriction of neural foramina ...
- Multinodular Thyroid Goiter with normal functioning
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and a 12 mm diameter nodule to the left with associated colloid accumulations. Another thyroid US was performed and there seems to be ... a 12 mm diameter nodule to the left with associated colloid accumulations . There were no locoregional adenopathies. On ... goiter , with needle biopsy suspicious for possible degeneration. My advice is to proceed with total Thyroidectomy ; ...