Table 1 Chronology of significant publications corresponding to today’s (idiopathic) multifocal choroiditis and those that influenced the eponym
Year | Title | Authors | References |
|---|---|---|---|
1959 | The probable role of benign histoplasmosis in the etiology of granulomatous uveitis (1) | Woods AC & Wahlen HE | Trans Am Oph Soc 1959; 57:318 [16] |
1969 | Multifocal inner choroiditis (2) | Krill AE et al. | Trans Am Acad Opht Otolaryn 1969;73:222–45 [1] |
1970 | Choroidal neovascularization in multifocal (presumed histoplasmin) choroiditis (1) | Krill AE & Archer D | Arch Opht 1970; 84:595–604 [2] |
1975 | Multifocal choroiditis | Archer DB & Maguire CJ | Trans Opht Soc UK 1975; 95:184–91 [17] |
1975 | Diagnosis and treatment of macular lesions in multifocal choroiditis (presumed histoplasmosis) (3) | Notting JG & Deutman AF | Klin Monbl Aug. 1975 May;166(5):629–36 [18] |
1976 | De novo lesions in presumed histoplasmosis-like (POHS) syndrome (4) | Miller SA et al. | Br J Opht 1976; 60:700–12 [19] |
1984 | Multifocal choroiditis and panuveitis. A syndrome that mimics ocular histoplasmosis | Dreyer RF & Gass DJ | Arch Opht 1984; 102; 1776–84 [4] |
1985 | Inflammatory pseudohistoplasmosis (POHS) (4) | Deutsch TA & Tessler HH | Ann Opht 1985; 17:461–5 [20] |
1986 | Multifocal inner choroiditis: pseudohistoplasmosis. The European form of the presumed American histoplasmosis (4) | Saraux H et al | J Fr Ophtalmol186; 9:645–51 [21] |
1986 | Recurrent multifocal choroiditis | Morgan CM & Shatz H | Ophthalmology 1986; 93:1138–47 [22] |
1990 | Multifocal choroiditis (5) | Joondeph BC & Tessler HH | Int Ophthalmol Clin. Fall 1990; 30:286–90 [23] |
1995 | Fundal white dots: the spectrum of a similar pathological process (6) ** | Ben Ezra D & Forrester JV | Br J Ophthalmol 1995; 79:856–60 [24] |
1997 | Indocyanine green angiography of multifocal choroiditis | Slakter et al. | Opht 1997; 104:1813–9 [6] |
1998 | Multifocal choroiditis: clinicopathologic consideration | Dunlop AA et al. | Arch Ophthalmol 1998; 116:801–3 [11] |
1998 | Histoplasmosis-like choroiditis in a nonendemic area: the north-western United Sates (5) | Watzke RC e al. | Retina 1998; 18:204–12 [25] |
2013 | Idiopathic multifocal choroiditis: a comment on present and past nomenclature | Essex RW et al. | Retina 2013; 33:1–4 [13] |
| Â | (1) Among first articles implicating histoplasmosis in POHS, in italics so to distinguish it from MFC | Â | |
(2) Can probably be considered as the first article on MFC | |||
(3) Uses term of histoplasmosis but histoplasmin skin test negative cases that correspond to MFC | |||
(4) Apparition of terms of pseudohistoplasmosis, pseudo-POHS or histoplasmosis-like corresponding to MFC cases | |||
(5) Comprehensive summary including historical publications on MFC | |||
(6) ** Unfortunate terminology which included MFC within a group of other unrelated entities | |||
In bold, significant progress in the appraisal and nomenclature of MFC | |||
In italics publications on POHS cases, distinct from MFC | |||