Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)

Chapter 223: DETACHMENT OF THE CHOROID.

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Comprehensive clinical manual detailing disorders of the nervous, genitourinary, ocular, and integumentary systems in domestic animals. It begins with principles of neural control and general symptomatology, classifying motor, sensory, and psychic disturbances and methods for localizing lesions. The text describes specific conditions such as seizures, paralysis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage, tumors, and toxicoses, and outlines diagnostic signs and pathological causes. Later sections address urine analysis and renal disease, urinary tract inflammation and calculi, and diseases of the eye, skin, and constitutional systems, combining pathological description with clinical signs, differential diagnosis, and practical guidance for examination and interpretation.

DETACHMENT OF THE CHOROID.

The choroid is detached from the sclera by exudates, blood effusions, or blows with blunt articles. The lesion is especially common in recurrent ophthalmia, choroiditis, and cyclitis. The ophthalmoscope will show the detached portion as a rounded elevation on the otherwise smooth concave surface, with normal or diminished intraocular tension. A tumor of the choroid is usually associated with increase of tension. After inflammation has been subdued these cases may be left to rest and time, and will often recover through absorption of the exudate. Rupture of the choroid from violence is to be similarly dealt with.