Cellular infiltration of Cloquet’s canal
- 1st Department of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University Medical School
- Budapest, VIII, Tömö u 25-29, H-1083, Hungary
- Accepted 20 June 1997
Editor,—Biomicroscopic evaluation of the Cloquet’s canal is difficult in a normal eye. Although Goldmann, based on his extensive biomicroscopic studies,1 described as early as 1954 the detailed biomicroscopic anatomy of it, normally only parts of the Cloquet’s canal are available for direct biomicroscopic observation.
In this report I present a case in which not only the entire course of the Cloquet’s canal became visible by a marked cellular infiltration of the vitreous, but the cell infiltration itself dramatically improved the visibility of fine structures of the surrounding vitreous.
CASE REPORT
A 9-year-old white boy discovered visual deterioration of the left eye by the incidental covering of his right eye. The patient’s previous medical history was uneventful: chickenpox and epidemic parotiditis occurred in early childhood.
Uncorrected visual acuity was 20/20 right eye and 20/200 left eye, which improved to 20/40 with a −3.0 D correction. Intraocular pressures were 12 and 13 mm Hg, respectively. …
