CHOROIDEREMIA

Abstract

THE TERM choroideremia has been used to describe an apparent absence ophthalmoscopically of the entire choroid except in the macular region. Since the first description, in 1872, by Mauthner,¹31 cases of a condition described as choroideremia have been published in the literature. These were cited by Nettleship,²Wolf³and Parker and Fralick.⁴In 1937 Bedell⁵gave an excellent summary of each of the then published cases which he considered instances of choroideremia in the broader sense; the description of these cases does not need to be repeated here. He added 5 cases of his own. Six years earlier, in a discussion on Parker and Fralick's paper, he suggested that choroideremia may appear in more than one form. Since that time Friedman⁶(1940), Scobee⁷(1943), Shapira and Sitney⁸(1943) and Magder⁹(1945) have reported cases. Friedman's⁶case was that of