Endogenous Intraocular Fungous Infection

ENDOGENOUS fungous infections of the interior of the eyes are rare. Muller (1903) 1 described metastatic nodules in the retina from miliary actinomycosis arising in the lungs. Dimmer (1914) reported choroidoscleritis due to a fungus thought to be Aspergillus fumigatus. Stock (1926) 3 reported abscesses of the vitreous and retina caused apparently by identical fungi. Verhoeff (1924) 4 reported a case of uveitis caused by an actinomycete-like organism in one eye of a patient after a postoperative infection by a fungus of a similar type in the fellow eye. Verhoeff (1926) 5 also reported idiopathic retinochoroiditis caused by a similar organism occurring in a patient after a febrile illness. Churchill and Stober (1914) 6 recovered blastomycetes from the vitreous of an eye of a patient with systemic blastomycosis, but no description of the ocular lesion was given. Schwartz (1931) 7 reported hypopyon iritis in one eye caused by a blastomycete