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Several authors tried to classify the retinal haemorrhages they found in newborn infants according to their different appearances. Most investigators differentiate two or more flat types of haemorrhage and one three-dimensional prominent type of effusion, normally denominated as “preretinal”. Some of the features, like the flame-shaped appearance of haemorrhages in the nerve fibre layer, have been correctly described by many authors. For the rest, the descriptions remain incomplete or incorrect, varying from author to author, and their explanations are based on speculations.
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von Barsewisch, B. (1979). Morphology. In: Perinatal Retinal Haemorrhages. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81302-3_4
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