Paraneoplastic Retinopathy

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Identifier R2B6_1b
Title Paraneoplastic Retinopathy
Creator William F. Hoyt, MD
Affiliation (WFH) Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, California
Subject Pigmentary Retinopathy; Paraneoplastic Retinopathy; Paraneoplastic Disease
Description Man with oat cell carcinoma of the lung with paraneoplastic retinopathy. Narrowed arterioles. Note absence of obvious retinal pigmentary degeneration. Cancer associated retinopathy syndrome (CAR Syndrome or Sawyer-Sellhorst Syndrome) (Ref: Sawyer, Sellhorst, Hoyt). Anatomy: Retina. Pathology: Oat cell carcinoma of the lung with paraneoplastic retinopathy. Disease/Diagnosis: Cancer associated retinopathy. Clinical: Progressive visual loss, progressive night blindness, and diffuse photopsias.
Date 1977
References Sawyer RA, Selhorst JB, Zimmerman LE, Hoyt WF. Blindness caused by photoreceptor degeneration as a remote effect of cancer. Am J Ophthalmol. 1976 May;81(5):606-13. PMID: 179323
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Scanned at 2700 ppi on Nikon LS2000 and Nikon 8000 film scanners
Type Image
Source 35mm Kodachrome slide; 52a
Relation is Part of group R2B61
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: William F. Hoyt Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/Hoyt/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 1960. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s6h15zkm
Setname ehsl_novel_wfh
ID 189962
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h15zkm
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