Publications by authors named "Edward L Howes"
Purpose: To report a rare case of neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease with serial photographs to characterize the optic nerve findings.
Design: Observational case report.
Methods: A 6-year-old girl with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease, who had received systemic corticosteroid therapy for 5 years, had bilateral fibrillar opacities that surrounded the optic disks and extended into the peripapillary nerve fiber layer and vessels.
Intraocular medulloepithelioma is a rare tumor usually arising from the ciliary body and presenting in childhood. We recently managed a case of an advanced medulloepithelioma in a 45-year-old man that went untreated for several years. The patient had an exenteration after the tumor destroyed the eye and extended into the central nervous system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To report the clinicopathologic features of a patient with AIDS and clinically regressed systemic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who subsequently developed lymphomatous infiltration of the optic nerve and occlusion of the central retinal vein in both eyes.
Methods: The eyes of this patient were examined ophthalmologically and by fluorescein angiography. The eyes, brain, and body were obtained after death and studied by light microscopy.