Juvenile retinoschisis.

Abstract

Jager (I953) introduced the term retinoschisis for a hereditary sex-linked disease involving the inner layers of the retina. He stated that this condition was found in patients living in Western Europe, but it is not limited to the white race. Cibis (I965) studied a family with juvenile retinoschisis, tracing it back five generations to a Cherokee Indian woman who appeared to be a carrier of this disease. Deutman (I97I) described juvenile retinoschisis in four sons of an Indonesian family and Saito, Satoh, Seimiya, Koda, Asamizu, and Mori (197I) reported a Japanese family afflicted with this disease. We have had the opportunity of evaluating a Negro family with juvenile retinoschisis.